Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:54:22 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/8] Inode slimming |
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Theodore Tso wrote:
> What else remains to be done? There are a large number of fields in > struct inode which are never populated unless the inode is open, and > those should get moved into another structure which is populated only > when needed. There are a large number of inodes which are read into > memory only because stat(2) was called on them (thanks to things like > color ls, et. al).
One could remove the reclaim list and use the slab lists of the slab allocator to scan through the inodes and reclaim them in such a way that would maximize the number of pages freed. I will post an RFC on that one later. This may reduce the complexity of inode reclaim.
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