Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:35:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:35:08 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([140.239.227.29]:30915 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:35:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:40:39 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ed Tomlinson Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 1/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3 Message-ID: <20021008184039.GA8174@think.thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ed Tomlinson References: <20021008191900.A12912@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021008191900.A12912@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 821 Lines: 20 On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:19:00PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > This first patch creates a generic interface for registering caches with > > the VM subsystem so that they can react appropriately to memory > > pressure. > > I'd suggest Ed Tomlinson's much saner interface that adds a third callbackj > to kmem_cache_t (similar to the Solaris implementation) instead. Can you give me a pointer to his stuff? Thanks! - Ted > Doing this outside slab is not a good idea (and XFS currently does > it too - in it's own code which should be replaced with Ed's one) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/