Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:21:15 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vfs: add d_prune dentry operation |
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 09:19:43AM -0700, Sage Weil wrote: > Let me know if the below is clearer. The requirement is that ->d_prune be > called prior to unhashing (and then destroying) a victim dentry. I'm a > little worried about mixing that in with the lru helpers because it is > only indirectly related to whether the dentry is on the LRU, and that may > confuse people. A cleaned up opencoded patch is here: > > https://github.com/NewDreamNetwork/ceph-client/commit/784a6aa6dc7baf2069c40988d79130dba17c7068 > > and the updated dentry_lru_prune() wrapper version is below.
Long term what I really want is a helper for doing more of the real removal in single place. This is one step towards it, and the series from Dave is another.
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