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 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 --- fs/dcache.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/dcache.c') diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 4d9df3c940e6..6ef1c2e1bbc4 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -146,13 +146,13 @@ struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat = { .age_limit = 45, }; -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, nr_dentry); +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(long, nr_dentry); #if defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL) && defined(CONFIG_PROC_FS) -static int get_nr_dentry(void) +static long get_nr_dentry(void) { int i; - int sum = 0; + long sum = 0; for_each_possible_cpu(i) sum += per_cpu(nr_dentry, i); return sum < 0 ? 0 : sum; @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ int proc_nr_dentry(ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { dentry_stat.nr_dentry = get_nr_dentry(); - return proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); + return proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); } #endif -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522