Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 10:40:11 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 18/21] Filesystem: Socket inode defragmentation |
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On Tue, 13 May 2008, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> Out of curiosity, how can you drop socket inode, since it is always > attached to socket which is removed automatically when connection is > closed. Any force of dropping socket inode can only result in connection > drop, i.e. there are no inodes, which are placed in cache and are not > yet freed, if there are no attached sockets. > > So question is how does it work for sockets?
All inodes are inactivated and put on a lru before they are freed. Those could be reclaimed by inode defrag. Socket inode defrag is not that important. Just shows that this can be applied in a general way.
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