On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 06:00:51AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > Currently when we are processing a request, we try to scrape an expired > or over-limit entry off the list in preference to allocating a new one > from the slab. > > This is unnecessarily complicated. Just use the slab layer. I really don't think pruning caches from lookup functions is a good idea. To many chances for locking inversions, unbounded runtime and other issues. So I'd prefer my earlier version of the patch to remove it entirely if we want to change anything beyond your minimal fix. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
