Re: VM balancing issues on 2.6.13: dentry cache not getting shrunkenough

[Manfred Spraul]

Andi Kleen wrote:

> The slab datastructures are not completely suited for this right now,
> but it could be done by using one more of the list_heads in struct page
> for slab backing pages.
>
>  
I agree, I even started prototyping something a year ago, but ran out of 
time.
One tricky point are directory dentries: As far as I see, they are 
pinned and unfreeable if a (freeable) directory entry is in the cache.

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   Manfred
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