Re: [PATCH] btrfs: Fix slab accounting flags

From: Nikolay Borisov
Date: Tue Jul 05 2016 - 09:58:07 EST


After some days of inactivity a gentle ping is in order.

On 06/23/2016 09:17 PM, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> BTRFS is using a variety of slab caches to satisfy internal needs.
> Those slab caches are always allocated with the SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT,
> meaning allocations from the caches are going to be accounted as
> SReclaimable. At the same time btrfs is not registering any shrinkers
> whatsoever, thus preventing memory from the slabs to be shrunk. This
> means those caches are not in fact reclaimable.
>
> To fix this remove the SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT on all caches apart from the
> inode cache, since this one is being freed by the generic VFS super_block
> shrinker. Also set the transaction related caches as SLAB_TEMPORARY,
> to better document the lifetime of the objects (it just translates
> to SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT).
>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/btrfs/backref.c | 2 +-
> fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c | 2 +-
> fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.c | 8 ++++----
> fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +-
> fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 4 ++--
> fs/btrfs/extent_map.c | 2 +-
> fs/btrfs/file.c | 2 +-
> fs/btrfs/inode.c | 8 ++++----
> fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c | 2 +-
> 9 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/backref.c b/fs/btrfs/backref.c
> index 8bb3509099e8..1ac8a3c7f68e 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/backref.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/backref.c
> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ int __init btrfs_prelim_ref_init(void)
> btrfs_prelim_ref_cache = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_prelim_ref",
> sizeof(struct __prelim_ref),
> 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
> NULL);
> if (!btrfs_prelim_ref_cache)
> return -ENOMEM;
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
> index 61561c2a3f96..4e5cd7dde3c5 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ int __init btrfs_delayed_inode_init(void)
> delayed_node_cache = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_delayed_node",
> sizeof(struct btrfs_delayed_node),
> 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
> NULL);
> if (!delayed_node_cache)
> return -ENOMEM;
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.c b/fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.c
> index 430b3689b112..08e452599249 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.c
> @@ -940,28 +940,28 @@ int btrfs_delayed_ref_init(void)
> btrfs_delayed_ref_head_cachep = kmem_cache_create(
> "btrfs_delayed_ref_head",
> sizeof(struct btrfs_delayed_ref_head), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> if (!btrfs_delayed_ref_head_cachep)
> goto fail;
>
> btrfs_delayed_tree_ref_cachep = kmem_cache_create(
> "btrfs_delayed_tree_ref",
> sizeof(struct btrfs_delayed_tree_ref), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> if (!btrfs_delayed_tree_ref_cachep)
> goto fail;
>
> btrfs_delayed_data_ref_cachep = kmem_cache_create(
> "btrfs_delayed_data_ref",
> sizeof(struct btrfs_delayed_data_ref), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> if (!btrfs_delayed_data_ref_cachep)
> goto fail;
>
> btrfs_delayed_extent_op_cachep = kmem_cache_create(
> "btrfs_delayed_extent_op",
> sizeof(struct btrfs_delayed_extent_op), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> if (!btrfs_delayed_extent_op_cachep)
> goto fail;
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> index 54cca7a1572b..cb1a05da5682 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ int __init btrfs_end_io_wq_init(void)
> btrfs_end_io_wq_cache = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_end_io_wq",
> sizeof(struct btrfs_end_io_wq),
> 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
> NULL);
> if (!btrfs_end_io_wq_cache)
> return -ENOMEM;
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
> index aaee3ef55ed8..f3337998264d 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
> @@ -163,13 +163,13 @@ int __init extent_io_init(void)
> {
> extent_state_cache = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_extent_state",
> sizeof(struct extent_state), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> if (!extent_state_cache)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> extent_buffer_cache = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_extent_buffer",
> sizeof(struct extent_buffer), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> if (!extent_buffer_cache)
> goto free_state_cache;
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c
> index e0715fcfb11e..26f9ac719d20 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ int __init extent_map_init(void)
> {
> extent_map_cache = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_extent_map",
> sizeof(struct extent_map), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> if (!extent_map_cache)
> return -ENOMEM;
> return 0;
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> index e0c9bd3fb02d..55e4d36f0c6a 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
> @@ -2977,7 +2977,7 @@ int btrfs_auto_defrag_init(void)
> {
> btrfs_inode_defrag_cachep = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_inode_defrag",
> sizeof(struct inode_defrag), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
> NULL);
> if (!btrfs_inode_defrag_cachep)
> return -ENOMEM;
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> index d2be95cfb6d1..66051c02b6de 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> @@ -9383,25 +9383,25 @@ int btrfs_init_cachep(void)
>
> btrfs_trans_handle_cachep = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_trans_handle",
> sizeof(struct btrfs_trans_handle), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> + SLAB_TEMPORARY | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> if (!btrfs_trans_handle_cachep)
> goto fail;
>
> btrfs_transaction_cachep = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_transaction",
> sizeof(struct btrfs_transaction), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> + SLAB_TEMPORARY | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> if (!btrfs_transaction_cachep)
> goto fail;
>
> btrfs_path_cachep = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_path",
> sizeof(struct btrfs_path), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> if (!btrfs_path_cachep)
> goto fail;
>
> btrfs_free_space_cachep = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_free_space",
> sizeof(struct btrfs_free_space), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, NULL);
> if (!btrfs_free_space_cachep)
> goto fail;
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c b/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c
> index e96634a725c3..c9fa1661277c 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c
> @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ int __init ordered_data_init(void)
> {
> btrfs_ordered_extent_cache = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_ordered_extent",
> sizeof(struct btrfs_ordered_extent), 0,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
> + SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
> NULL);
> if (!btrfs_ordered_extent_cache)
> return -ENOMEM;
>