memcg/sl[au]b: shrink dead caches
authorGlauber Costa <[email protected]>
Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:22:59 +0000 (14:22 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:02:14 +0000 (15:02 -0800)
commit22933152934f30de6f05b600c03f8a08f853a8d2
tree1abc838ffd9a130d25a493091dfe631145feea26
parent7cf2798240a2a2230cb16a391beef98d8a7ad362
memcg/sl[au]b: shrink dead caches

This means that when we destroy a memcg cache that happened to be empty,
those caches may take a lot of time to go away: removing the memcg
reference won't destroy them - because there are pending references, and
the empty pages will stay there, until a shrinker is called upon for any
reason.

In this patch, we will call kmem_cache_shrink() for all dead caches that
cannot be destroyed because of remaining pages.  After shrinking, it is
possible that it could be freed.  If this is not the case, we'll schedule
a lazy worker to keep trying.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/memcontrol.c