fs: bump inode and dentry counters to long
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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <[email protected]>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <[email protected]>
Cc: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <[email protected]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>