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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 06:02:06 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: [PATCH] put newly registered shrinkers at the tail of the list
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This way we actually share dentries before inodes and thus mark more
inodes reclaimable once we shake them.


--- 1.240/mm/vmscan.c	2005-02-04 01:53:32 +01:00
+++ edited/mm/vmscan.c	2005-03-02 07:09:00 +01:00
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ struct shrinker *set_shrinker(int seeks,
 	        shrinker->seeks = seeks;
 	        shrinker->nr = 0;
 	        down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
-	        list_add(&shrinker->list, &shrinker_list);
+	        list_add_tail(&shrinker->list, &shrinker_list);
 	        up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
 	}
 	return shrinker;