From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dcache shrink list corruption?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:17:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFz7CrYrwdNScC+5Y8CJ1PaWF7MbrOCRyd_zECt8PXbBqA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfpegvbzQc2y12_MV6MZ398ggjkc1w73Px7pXViGnSm=+syNA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
>
> Because we no longer have that. It now uses the list_lru thing, with
> a "per-node" lock, whatever that one is.
Oh, yes. Right you are. I just started looking at that and went "ugh".
The lru lists are all distributed now with multiple locks (well, one
per list node).
> Another idea, which could have subtler effects, is simply not to kill
> a dentry that is on the shrink list (indicated by
> DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST), since it's bound to get killed anyway. But
> that's a change in behaviour...
Ooh, I like the way you think. I don't see why this wouldn't be the
right approach.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-29 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-29 16:01 dcache shrink list corruption? Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-29 17:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-29 18:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-29 18:16 ` Al Viro
2014-04-29 19:10 ` Al Viro
2014-04-29 21:18 ` Dave Chinner
2014-04-29 21:48 ` Al Viro
2014-04-29 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-29 23:20 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 2:31 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 2:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 4:04 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 15:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-30 15:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-30 16:03 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 17:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-30 18:36 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 18:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-04-30 19:02 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 19:59 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 20:38 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 20:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 21:12 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 22:12 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 23:43 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 0:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-01 2:51 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 2:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-01 3:12 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 9:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-01 14:34 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 21:02 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 21:05 ` Al Viro
2014-05-01 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-02 8:43 ` Szeredi Miklos
2014-05-02 21:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-30 23:38 ` Al Viro
2014-04-30 9:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-02 5:51 ` Al Viro
2014-05-02 9:00 ` Szeredi Miklos
2014-05-02 21:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-02 21:08 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-02 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-02 22:40 ` Al Viro
2014-05-02 23:06 ` Al Viro
2014-05-03 4:26 ` Al Viro
2014-05-03 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-03 18:25 ` Al Viro
2014-05-03 18:21 ` Al Viro
2014-05-04 6:29 ` Al Viro
2014-05-06 10:17 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-05-06 14:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 16:52 ` Al Viro
2014-05-06 17:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 19:15 ` Al Viro
2014-05-02 22:32 ` Al Viro
2014-04-29 18:17 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2014-04-29 17:56 ` Al Viro
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