RE: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 08/12] f2fs: introduce a shrinker for mounted fs

From: Chao Yu
Date: Mon Jun 29 2015 - 23:44:46 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaegeuk Kim [mailto:jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 2:40 AM
> To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> linux-f2fs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Jaegeuk Kim
> Subject: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 08/12] f2fs: introduce a shrinker for mounted fs
>
> This patch introduces a shrinker targeting to reduce memory footprint consumed
> by a number of in-memory f2fs data structures.
>
> In addition, it newly adds:
> - sbi->umount_mutex to avoid data races on shrinker and put_super
> - sbi->shruinker_run_no to not revisit objects
>
> Noteh that the basic implementation was copied from fs/btrfs/shrinker.c

Great! Good to see it's being implemented in f2fs.

>
> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

[snip]

> @@ -1406,6 +1425,9 @@ static int __init init_f2fs_fs(void)
> err = f2fs_init_crypto();
> if (err)
> goto free_kset;
> +
> + register_shrinker(&f2fs_shrinker_info);

This function can fail due to no memory, please check the return value here.

Thanks,

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