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DateMon, 2 Apr 2007 20:58:25 -0700
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Cleanup and kernelify shrinker registration (rc5-mm2)
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:44:45 +1000 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:

>
> I can never remember what the function to register to receive VM pressure
> is called. I have to trace down from __alloc_pages() to find it.
>
> It's called "set_shrinker()", and it needs Your Help.
>
> New version:
> 1) Don't hide struct shrinker. It contains no magic.
> 2) Don't allocate "struct shrinker". It's not helpful.
> 3) Call them "register_shrinker" and "unregister_shrinker".
> 4) Call the function "shrink" not "shrinker".
> 5) Rename "nr_to_scan" argument to "nr_to_free".

No, it is actually the number to scan. This is >= the number of freed
objects.

This is because, for better of for worse, the VM tries to balance the
scanning rate of the various caches, not the reclaiming rate.

> 6) Reduce the 17 lines of waffly comments to 10, and document the -1 return.
>
> Comments:
> 1) The comment in reiserfs4 makes me a little queasy.

I'm going to have to split this patch up into mainline-bit and reiser4-bit.

And that's OK (it's a regular occurrence). But never miss a chance to whine.

> 2) The wrapper code in xfs might no longer be needed.
> 3) The placing in the x86-64 "hot function list" for seems a little
> unlikely. Clearly, Andi was testing if anyone was paying attention.


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