Re: [patch 37/52] fs: icache lazy lru

Nick Piggin
2010-06-24T15:59:13Z

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:52:58AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> npiggin@suse.de writes:
>
> > Impelemnt lazy inode lru similarly to dcache. This will reduce lock
> > acquisition and will help to improve lock ordering subsequently.
>
> Or just drop inode LRU completely and only rely on the dcache for that?

Possible, yes. There was some talking about it. I prefer not to do
anything too controversial yet if possible :)