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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2002-11-15	[PATCH] mbcache: add gfp_mask parameter to free() callback,	Andrew Morton
	Patch from Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Add a gfp_mask parameter to the free() callback so that the callback can safely do I/O, etc. The free callback can now also fail. This will be needed by reiserfs. The order of entries on the cache entry lru is reversed so that list_for_each_safe() can be used. Several helper functions that don't make the code any better are removed. Finally, a couple of cosmetic things.
2002-10-30	Port of the 0.8.50 xattr-mbcache patch to 2.5. (Shrinker API, hch cleanups)	Theodore Y. Ts'o
	(now uses struct block_device * to index devices, and uses hash.h for hash function) This patch creates a meta block cache which is utilized by the ext3 and ext2 extended attribute patch (patches 2 and 3, respectively). This cache allows directory blocks to be indexed by multiple keys. In the case of the extended attribute patches, it is used to look up blocks by both the block number and by the hash of the extended attributes. This is extremely important to allow the sharing of acl's when stored as extended attributes. Otherwise every single file would require its own, separate, one block overhead to store then ACL, even though there might be a large number of files that have the same ACL.