Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Jul 2006 19:37:38 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/4] Object reclaim via the slab allocator V1 |
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > If used for the dcache then dentry handling must be changed so that the > > refcount at the beginnDing of the slab is 1 if the object is reclaimable > > and the higher refcount needs to be an indicator that the object is in > > use. I am not saying that existing use gets us there. Maybe we need to > > call this a reclaim flag instead of a refcount? > > I think the cache has to decide...
The cache decides by setting the refcount/reclaim flag.
I doubt that I get to revising this in the next week. Can we have a slab reclaim meeting in Ottawa?
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