From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4327EA6B.6090102@colorfullife.com> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:16:27 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: VM balancing issues on 2.6.13: dentry cache not getting shrunk enough References: <20050911105709.GA16369@thunk.org> <20050913084752.GC4474@in.ibm.com> <20050913215932.GA1654338@melbourne.sgi.com> <200509141101.16781.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200509141101.16781.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: David Chinner , Bharata B Rao , Theodore Ts'o , Dipankar Sarma , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- Manfred -- 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