From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753477Ab0JMNcP (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:32:15 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([134.117.69.58]:58851 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751736Ab0JMNcN (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:32:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:32:13 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dave Chinner Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/18] fs: Implement lazy LRU updates for inodes. Message-ID: <20101013133213.GC5263@infradead.org> References: <1286928961-15157-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1286928961-15157-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1286928961-15157-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > */ > redirty_tail(inode); > - } else if (atomic_read(&inode->i_count)) { > - /* > - * The inode is clean, inuse > - */ > - list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_in_use); > } else { > - /* > - * The inode is clean, unused > - */ > - list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_unused); > + /* The inode is clean */ > + list_del_init(&inode->i_list); > + inode_lru_list_add(inode); Just noticed this when reviewing a later patch: why do we lose the i_count check here? There's no point in adding an inode that is still in use onto the LRU - we'll just remove it again once we find it during LRU scanning.