Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: add context argument to shrinker callback

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On 04/13/2010 03:24 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

The current shrinker implementation requires the registered callback
to have global state to work from. This makes it difficult to shrink
caches that are not global (e.g. per-filesystem caches). Add a
context argument to the shrinker callback so that it can easily be
used in such situations.

@@ -995,7 +995,8 @@ static inline void sync_mm_rss(struct task_struct *task, struct mm_struct *mm)
   * querying the cache size, so a fastpath for that case is appropriate.
   */
  struct shrinker {
-	int (*shrink)(int nr_to_scan, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+	int (*shrink)(void *ctx, int nr_to_scan, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+	void *ctx;	/* user callback context */
  	int seeks;	/* seeks to recreate an obj */


It's nicer (and slightly cheaper) to have

  int (*shrink)(struct shrinker *shrinker, int nr_to_scan, gfp_t gfp_mask);
  /* no void *ctx; */

Clients can use container_of() to reach their context from the shrinker argument.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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