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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, Bharata B Rao <bharata@in.ibm.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM balancing issues on 2.6.13: dentry cache not getting shrunk enough
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:16:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4327EA6B.6090102@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509141101.16781.ak@suse.de>

Andi Kleen wrote:

>The slab datastructures are not completely suited for this right now,
>but it could be done by using one more of the list_heads in struct page
>for slab backing pages.
>
>  
>
I agree, I even started prototyping something a year ago, but ran out of 
time.
One tricky point are directory dentries: As far as I see, they are 
pinned and unfreeable if a (freeable) directory entry is in the cache.

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    Manfred
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-14  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-11 10:57 Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-11 12:00 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-12  3:16   ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-12  6:16     ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-09-12 12:53       ` Bharata B Rao
2005-09-13  8:47     ` Bharata B Rao
2005-09-13 21:59       ` David Chinner
2005-09-14  9:01         ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-14  9:16           ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2005-09-14  9:43             ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-14  9:52               ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-14 22:44               ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-14  9:35           ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-14 13:57           ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-09-14 15:37             ` Sonny Rao
2005-09-15  7:21             ` Helge Hafting
2005-09-14 22:48           ` David Chinner
2005-09-14 15:48         ` Sonny Rao
2005-09-14 22:02           ` David Chinner
2005-09-14 22:40             ` Sonny Rao
2005-09-15  1:14               ` David Chinner
2005-10-06  6:27         ` [PATCH] dcache: separate slab for directory dentries David Chinner, gnb
2005-10-06 12:28           ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-10-07  3:54             ` Greg Banks
2005-10-07 13:00               ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-09-14 21:34       ` VM balancing issues on 2.6.13: dentry cache not getting shrunk enough Marcelo Tosatti
2005-09-14 21:43         ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-15  4:28         ` Bharata B Rao
2005-09-14 23:08       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-09-15  9:39         ` Bharata B Rao
2005-09-15 13:29           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-10-02 16:32             ` Bharata B Rao
2005-10-02 20:06               ` Marcelo
2005-10-04 13:36                 ` shrinkable cache statistics [was Re: VM balancing issues on 2.6.13: dentry cache not getting shrunk enough] Bharata B Rao
2005-10-05 21:25                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-10-07  8:12                     ` Bharata B Rao

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