Re: [PATCH 4/6] fs: Introduce a per_cpu nr_inodes

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:39:31AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> With it being called from writeback that might not be true for all
> workloads. One thing you can do about it is use the regular per-cpu
> counter stuff, which allows you to do an approximation of the global
> number (it also does all the hotplug stuff for you already).

The way it's used in writeback is utterly stupid and should be fixed :)

But otherwise agreed.

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