Re: [patch 18/21] Filesystem: Socket inode defragmentation

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 13 May 2008, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:

> Out of curiosity, how can you drop socket inode, since it is always
> attached to socket which is removed automatically when connection is
> closed. Any force of dropping socket inode can only result in connection
> drop, i.e. there are no inodes, which are placed in cache and are not
> yet freed, if there are no attached sockets.
> 
> So question is how does it work for sockets?

All inodes are inactivated and put on a lru before they are freed. Those 
could be reclaimed by inode defrag. Socket inode defrag is not that 
important. Just shows that this can be applied in a general way.


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