Re: [PATCH] VFS: Go through the LRU list of inode from head

From: Jan Kara
Date: Thu Jun 21 2012 - 05:52:20 EST


On Thu 21-06-12 17:00:27, Cong Meng wrote:
> Go through the LRU list of inode from head.
>
> (I'm not sure whether there is any trick here I doesn't get. If yes,
> any one could explain it)
Look at inode_lru_list_add(). It adds at the head of the list. So you
should take from the tail to get the least recently used element...

Honza

>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Meng <mc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/inode.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
> index 775cbab..aac8449 100644
> --- a/fs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/inode.c
> @@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ void prune_icache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nr_to_scan)
> if (list_empty(&sb->s_inode_lru))
> break;
>
> - inode = list_entry(sb->s_inode_lru.prev, struct inode, i_lru);
> + inode = list_entry(sb->s_inode_lru.next, struct inode, i_lru);
>
> /*
> * we are inverting the sb->s_inode_lru_lock/inode->i_lock here,
> --
> 1.7.5.4
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