Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:06:21 -0500 (EST) | | From | Alexander Viro <> | | Subject | Re: Linux Status For 2.3.x: v 2.3.43 |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > Probable point where we call it being shrink_mmap(). Other candidates? > > shrink_mmap() is the obvious place. The biggest problem is that we will > need to export enough functionality to allow other filesystems to > hook their own data structures onto the page cache LRU list, so that > filesystem-specific caches can be reclaimed in the same shrink_mmap() > loop.
Why? If we include the pages via the standard functions those pages _will_ end up in lru_cache, no matter what cache they belong to...
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