On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:39:44PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.
Agreed, that makes a lot of sense. I'll change it for the next version.
Cheers,
Dave.
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