Re: [RFC 0/4] Object reclaim via the slab allocator V1

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> > If used for the dcache then dentry handling must be changed so that the 
> > refcount at the beginnDing of the slab is 1 if the object is reclaimable 
> > and the higher refcount needs to be an indicator that the object is in 
> > use. I am not saying that existing use gets us there. Maybe we need to 
> > call this a reclaim flag instead of a refcount?
> 
> I think the cache has to decide...

The cache decides by setting the refcount/reclaim flag.

I doubt that I get to revising this in the next week. Can we have a slab 
reclaim meeting in Ottawa?

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