Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753806Ab0GTTaP (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:30:15 -0400 Received: from relay3.sgi.com ([192.48.152.1]:41786 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750972Ab0GTTaK (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:30:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: add context argument to shrinker callback From: Alex Elder Reply-To: aelder@sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: <1279194418-16119-2-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> References: <1279194418-16119-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1279194418-16119-2-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:30:04 -0500 Message-ID: <1279654204.1859.232.camel@doink> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jul 2010 19:30:05.0565 (UTC) FILETIME=[F4D312D0:01CB2841] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1912 Lines: 49 On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 21:46 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner > > The current shrinker implementation requires the registered callback > to have global state to work from. This makes it difficult to shrink > caches that are not global (e.g. per-filesystem caches). Pass the shrinker > structure to the callback so that users can embed the shrinker structure > in the context the shrinker needs to operate on and get back to it in the > callback via container_of(). > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner > --- > arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +- > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 2 +- > fs/dcache.c | 2 +- > fs/gfs2/glock.c | 2 +- > fs/gfs2/quota.c | 2 +- > fs/gfs2/quota.h | 2 +- > fs/inode.c | 2 +- > fs/mbcache.c | 5 +++-- > fs/nfs/dir.c | 2 +- > fs/nfs/internal.h | 3 ++- > fs/quota/dquot.c | 2 +- > fs/ubifs/shrinker.c | 2 +- > fs/ubifs/ubifs.h | 2 +- > fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c | 5 +++-- > fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c | 1 + > fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm.c | 7 +++++-- > include/linux/mm.h | 2 +- > mm/vmscan.c | 8 +++++--- > 18 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) You seem to have missed two registered shrinkers: - ttm_pool_mm_shrink() in "drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c" - rpcauth_cache_shrinker() in "net/sunrpc/auth.c" Other that that, this looks good to me. -Alex -- 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/