Re: [patch 13/14] fs: icache split IO and LRU lists

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Oct 21 2010 - 20:01:26 EST


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:28:42AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, npiggin@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Split inode reclaim and writeback lists in preparation to scale them up
> > (per-bdi locking for i_io and per-zone locking for i_lru)
>
> Why per zone and not per node? Is there any chance of having lru lists for
> ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_DMA?

I guess I see that as coupling a bit too much with the MM. We know that
zones are the unit of allocation and reclaim, but I don't think we need
to care about which zones we need to care about, or the node:zone
relationship.


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