Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] [PATCH 1/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tuesday 08 October 2002 20:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
> [...]
> > > This first patch creates a generic interface for registering caches
> > > with the VM subsystem so that they can react appropriately to memory
> > > pressure.
> >
> > I'd suggest Ed Tomlinson's much saner interface that adds a third
> > callbackj to kmem_cache_t (similar to the Solaris implementation)
> > instead.
> >
> > Doing this outside slab is not a good idea (and XFS currently does
> > it too - in it's own code which should be replaced with Ed's one)
>
> Yup, although that's a fairly minor point in this context..
>
> The shrinker callback code is not actually in Linus's kernel
> at present.  I'm kind of sitting on it until I've had time
> to ponder the dirty great lock which Ed added ;)

Switching to Ed's code once it's in the kernel may be worthwhile; until then 
the dumb shrinking approaah doesn't to do much harm IMHO.

--Andreas.