This series is a current work in progress: - cleans up the shrinker API, fixes a couple of warts and converts all the shrinkers to us it, - makes the inode slab cache initialisation consistent across all inode caches, - introduces a generic LRU list type and infrstructure - converts inode cache to use lru list infrastructure - convert xfs buffer cache to use lru list infrastructure - converts the dentry cache LRU to per-sb - fixes dcache select_parent() use-the-lru-for-disposal abuse - makes the dcache consistent about removing inodes from the LRU before disposal of them - converts the dentry cache to use lru list infrastructure The basic concept here is to fix the shrinker API to be somewhat sane and convert the main slab cache LRUs in the system to use generic infrastructure. Both the detry and inode caches use LRU implementations that are almost-but-not-quite the same. There is no reason for them to be different - it's only the fact that the dentry cache LRU has been used in for disposal purposes rather than using dispose lists. The dentry caceh dispose list also has a problem as a result of the RCU-ifying of the code - the dispose list is implicitly protected by the LRU lock, and actaully forms a disjoint part of the LRU as dentries on the dispose list are still accounted to the LRU and require a call to dentry_lru_del() to remove from the dispose list and correct the LRU accounting. THis only works when there is a single LRU lock - if the dispose list is made upof dentries protected by different LRU locks, then it fails with list corruption pretty quickly. This is another reason for moving to the same strategy as the inode cache, where inodes are completely removed form thr LRU before being placed on the dispose list.... In case it is not obvious, this is all preparatory work for making the LRUs and shrinkers node aware. The new generic LRU lists can be trivially converted to be node aware, and with the addition of node masks to the struct shrink_control propagated from shrink_slab() we can easily extend all these caches to have node aware reclaim. We will then have a generic node-aware LRU implementation that all subsystems can use to play well with memory reclaim on large NUMA machines... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
