Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755989AbYJVXVZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:21:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753567AbYJVXVP (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:21:15 -0400 Received: from nlpi053.sbcis.sbc.com ([207.115.36.82]:59717 "EHLO nlpi053.prodigy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753441AbYJVXVP (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:21:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:20:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@quilx.com To: Miklos Szeredi cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, hugh@veritas.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: SLUB defrag pull request? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1223883004.31587.15.camel@penberg-laptop> <48FE6306.6020806@linux-foundation.org> <84144f020810221348j536f0d84vca039ff32676e2cc@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -2.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 15 On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > So again, just checking d_lru should do work fine. There's absolutely > no need to mess with extra references in a separate phase, which leads > to lots of complications. Then try it the way I outlined it by skipping the get() stage. You just need to add checks for the poison in case debugging is on and then you should be fine. -- 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/