From 3942c07ccf98e66b8893f396dca98f5b076f905f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glauber Costa Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:17:53 +1000 Subject: fs: bump inode and dentry counters to long MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This series reworks our current object cache shrinking infrastructure in two main ways: * Noticing that a lot of users copy and paste their own version of LRU lists for objects, we put some effort in providing a generic version. It is modeled after the filesystem users: dentries, inodes, and xfs (for various tasks), but we expect that other users could benefit in the near future with little or no modification. Let us know if you have any issues. * The underlying list_lru being proposed automatically and transparently keeps the elements in per-node lists, and is able to manipulate the node lists individually. Given this infrastructure, we are able to modify the up-to-now hammer called shrink_slab to proceed with node-reclaim instead of always searching memory from all over like it has been doing. Per-node lru lists are also expected to lead to less contention in the lru locks on multi-node scans, since we are now no longer fighting for a global lock. The locks usually disappear from the profilers with this change. Although we have no official benchmarks for this version - be our guest to independently evaluate this - earlier versions of this series were performance tested (details at http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/100537) yielding no visible performance regressions while yielding a better qualitative behavior in NUMA machines. With this infrastructure in place, we can use the list_lru entry point to provide memcg isolation and per-memcg targeted reclaim. Historically, those two pieces of work have been posted together. This version presents only the infrastructure work, deferring the memcg work for a later time, so we can focus on getting this part tested. You can see more about the history of such work at http://lwn.net/Articles/552769/ Dave Chinner (18): dcache: convert dentry_stat.nr_unused to per-cpu counters dentry: move to per-sb LRU locks dcache: remove dentries from LRU before putting on dispose list mm: new shrinker API shrinker: convert superblock shrinkers to new API list: add a new LRU list type inode: convert inode lru list to generic lru list code. dcache: convert to use new lru list infrastructure list_lru: per-node list infrastructure shrinker: add node awareness fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code xfs: rework buffer dispose list tracking xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to count/scan API shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API. Glauber Costa (7): fs: bump inode and dentry counters to long super: fix calculation of shrinkable objects for small numbers list_lru: per-node API vmscan: per-node deferred work i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex hugepage: convert huge zero page shrinker to new shrinker API list_lru: dynamically adjust node arrays This patch: There are situations in very large machines in which we can have a large quantity of dirty inodes, unused dentries, etc. This is particularly true when umounting a filesystem, where eventually since every live object will eventually be discarded. Dave Chinner reported a problem with this while experimenting with the shrinker revamp patchset. So we believe it is time for a change. This patch just moves int to longs. Machines where it matters should have a big long anyway. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Al Viro Cc: Artem Bityutskiy Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg Cc: Carlos Maiolino Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Chuck Lever Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Gleb Natapov Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: J. Bruce Fields Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jerome Glisse Cc: John Stultz Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Thomas Hellstrom Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- kernel/sysctl.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 07f6fc468e17..7822cd88a95c 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1471,14 +1471,14 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { { .procname = "inode-nr", .data = &inodes_stat, - .maxlen = 2*sizeof(int), + .maxlen = 2*sizeof(long), .mode = 0444, .proc_handler = proc_nr_inodes, }, { .procname = "inode-state", .data = &inodes_stat, - .maxlen = 7*sizeof(int), + .maxlen = 7*sizeof(long), .mode = 0444, .proc_handler = proc_nr_inodes, }, @@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { { .procname = "dentry-state", .data = &dentry_stat, - .maxlen = 6*sizeof(int), + .maxlen = 6*sizeof(long), .mode = 0444, .proc_handler = proc_nr_dentry, }, -- cgit v1.2.3