Re: [RFC] the /proc/filecache interface

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> The /proc/filecache support has been half done. And I'd like to hear
> early comments on the interface.
> 
> (The patch is not quite ready for code reviews. It is attached in case
> someone are interested to have it a try.)

I guess this is going to be nice for loading cache after
suspend-to-disk and for the fast boot, but...

> SAMPLE OUTPUT
> 
> root ~# echo -n ALL > /proc/filecache
> root ~# head /proc/filecache
> # file ALL
> #      ino       size   cached cached%  state   refcnt  uid     gid     dev             file
>     413605         23       24    100   --      0       0       0       03:00(hda)      /sbin/modprobe
>     381701         17       20    100   --      1       0       0       03:00(hda)      /bin/cat
>     398088          1        4    100   --      0       0       0       03:00(hda)      /root/bin/checkpath
>     381698        611      612    100   --      1       0       0       03:00(hda)      /bin/bash
>     159498          1        4    100   --      0       0       0       03:00(hda)      /etc/mtab
>     381719         30       32    100   --      0       0       0       03:00(hda)      /bin/rm
>     335993          4        4    100   --      0       0       43      03:00(hda)      /var/run/utmp
>          0    3687424      828      0   --      0       0       0       00:02(bdev)     03:00
>     159701          5        8    100   --      0       0       0       03:00(hda)      /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
>      31866       1238     1240    100   --      4       0       0       03:00(hda)      /lib/tls/libc-2.3.5.so
>     381705         51       52    100   --      0       0       0       03:00(hda)      /bin/cp
>      31814         27       28    100   --      0       0       0       03:00(hda)      /lib/libblkid.so.1.0
>     159534         17       20    100   --      0       0       0       03:00(hda)      /etc/ld.so.cache
> [...]

> root ~# echo -n /lib/tls/libc-2.3.5.so > /proc/filecache
> root ~# head /proc/filecache
> # file /lib/tls/libc-2.3.5.so
> # flags LK:locked ER:error RF:referenced UD:uptodate DT:dirty AC:active SL:slab CK:checked A1:arch_1 RS:reserved PV:private WB:writeback NS:nosave CP:compound SC:swapcache MD:mappedtodisk RC:reclaim ns:nosave_free RA:readahead MM:mmap
> # idx   len                     state                   	refcnt  location
> 0       21      ____RFUD__AC__________________MD______MM        4       0.0.Normal
> 21      1       ____RFUD__AC__________________MD______MM        3       0.0.Normal
> 22      3       ______UD______________________MD________        1       0.0.Normal
> 25      1       ____RFUD__AC__________________MD______MM        2       0.0.Normal
> 26      2       ______UD______________________MD________        1       0.0.Normal
> 28      1       ______UD______________________MD____RA__        1       0.0.Normal
> 29      2       ______UD______________________MD________        1       0.0.Normal

The interface is really too ugly to live. How do you expect it being
used from two programs, simultaneously?

We don't really want to do ascii pretty-printing in kernel, sorry. It
probably needs to go into /sys , and be redesigned to provide "one
value per file" rule...

									Pavel
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