[PATCH 0/3] xfs: buffer cache shrinker overhaul V2

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Mon Nov 29 22:40:21 CST 2010


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:56:01AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:58:56AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > This series effectively means that the buffer cache can now be made
> > independent of the page cache as we now have our own optimised
> > buffer cache reclaim mechanisms.
> 
> What happened to that part of the first series?  Implementing the
> sub-page blocksize support using kmalloc should be fairly straight
> forward.

I haven't had time to implement a new version of it yet. I've still
got the get_free_page version of it around, I just need to update
and test it. Hopefully I'll get that done in the next couple of
days...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com




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