From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:34:01 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 Message-ID: <20070725113401.GA23341@elte.hu> References: <46A58B49.3050508@yahoo.com.au> <2c0942db0707240915h56e007e3l9110e24a065f2e73@mail.gmail.com> <46A6CC56.6040307@yahoo.com.au> <46A6D7D2.4050708@gmail.com> <46A6DFFD.9030202@gmail.com> <30701.1185347660@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <46A7074B.50608@gmail.com> <20070725082822.GA13098@elte.hu> <46A70D37.3060005@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46A70D37.3060005@gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rene Herman Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, david@lang.hm, Nick Piggin , Ray Lee , Jesper Juhl , Andrew Morton , ck list , Paul Jackson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Rene Herman wrote: > On 07/25/2007 10:28 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > >>Regardless, I'll stand by "[by disabling updatedb] the problem will > >>for a large part be solved" as I expect approximately 94.372 percent > >>of Linux desktop users couldn't care less about locate. > > > > i think that approach is illogical: because Linux mis-handled a > > mixed workload the answer is to ... remove a portion of that > > workload? > > No. It got snipped but I introduced the comment by saying it was a > "that's not the point" kind of thing. [...] ok - with that qualification i understand. still, especially for someone like me who frequently deals with source code, 'locate' is indispensible. and the fact is: updatedb discards a considerable portion of the cache completely unnecessarily: on a reasonably complex box no way do all the inodes and dentries fit into all of RAM, so we just trash everything. Maybe the kernel could be extended with a method of opening files in a 'drop from the dcache after use' way. (beagled and backup tools could make use of that facility too.) (Or some other sort of file-cache-invalidation syscall that already exist, which would _also_ result in the immediate zapping of the dentry+inode from the dcache.) Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org