On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:49:06AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > It's a relic from the days of Irix that we've kept around and never > really touched because it's never shown up as a problem. Such code > is cleaned up as we go along or as problems arise. > > As it is, this patchset: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/67326 > > that I'm currently working on changes the shrinker API to be much > more sane - the shrinker now has a separate "count objects" > operation and the "scan objects" operation now returns the number of > items freed rather than the number of items left in the cache. I think if you find bugs like that they should be in patches separate from the main conversion. Especially given that the 3.2 merge window is getting closer a first batch of patches with these fixes and some of the preparatory icache/dcache changes that can go into linux-next ASAP would be nice. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
