Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:44:26 -0500 | From | Josef Bacik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/11] btrfs: move to fn pointers for get/put workspaces |
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 01:17:17PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 04:24:33PM -0500, Dennis Zhou wrote: > > The previous patch added generic helpers for get_workspace() and > > put_workspace(). Now, we can migrate ownership of the workspace_manager > > to be in the compression type code as the compression code itself > > doesn't care beyond being able to get a workspace. The init/cleanup > > and get/put methods are abstracted so each compression algorithm can > > decide how they want to manage their workspaces. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> > > We're doing this to have special handling for extra workspaces to be free'd at > some point in the future if they are unused. This is fine by me, but why not > just add a shrinker and let it be handled by memory pressure? Then we avoid all > this abstraction and allow for ztsd to have its shrinker for its extra > workspaces. You can even use the list_lru stuff to make it super simple, then > you don't have to worry about all the infrastructure. Thanks, >
Nevermind, I missed that you also change the get side to lookup the workspace for the compression level instead of cycling through the idle_ws list. In that case this is fine by me.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Thanks,
Josef
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