Re: [patch 15/26] Slab defrag: Support generic defragmentation forinode slab caches

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Jun 26 2007 - 15:42:05 EST


On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> This is inverted: __GFP_FS is set if we may perform fs operations.

Sigh.



Slab defragmentation: Only perform slab defrag if __GFP_FS is clear

Avoids slab defragmentation be triggered from filesystem operations.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>

---
mm/vmscan.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2007-06-26 12:25:28.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/mm/vmscan.c 2007-06-26 12:40:44.000000000 -0700
@@ -233,8 +233,9 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long
shrinker->nr += total_scan;
}
up_read(&shrinker_rwsem);
- kmem_cache_defrag(sysctl_slab_defrag_ratio,
- zone ? zone_to_nid(zone) : -1);
+ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)
+ kmem_cache_defrag(sysctl_slab_defrag_ratio,
+ zone ? zone_to_nid(zone) : -1);
return ret;
}

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