Re: [PATCH v2] ceph: Mark the file cache as unreclaimable
From: Yan, Zheng
Date: Mon Jul 25 2016 - 22:24:49 EST
> On Jul 26, 2016, at 01:12, Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ceph creates multiple caches with the SLAB_RECLAIMABLE flag set, so
> that it can satisfy its internal needs. Inspecting the code shows that
> most of the caches are indeed reclaimable since they are directly
> related to the generic inode/dentry shrinkers. However, one of the
> cache used to satisfy struct file is not reclaimable since its
> entries are freed only when the last reference to the file is
> dropped. If a heavily loaded node opens a lot of files it can
> introduce non-trivial discrepancies between memory shown as reclaimable
> and what is actually reclaimed when drop_caches is used.
>
> Fix this by removing the reclaimable flag for the file's cache.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Fixed checkpatch warning + missing SOB line
>
> fs/ceph/super.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ceph/super.c b/fs/ceph/super.c
> index 91e02481ce06..8697cac6add0 100644
> --- a/fs/ceph/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/super.c
> @@ -672,8 +672,8 @@ static int __init init_caches(void)
> if (ceph_dentry_cachep == NULL)
> goto bad_dentry;
>
> - ceph_file_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(ceph_file_info,
> - SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD);
> + ceph_file_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(ceph_file_info, SLAB_MEM_SPREAD);
> +
> if (ceph_file_cachep == NULL)
> goto bad_file;
>
Applied, thanks
Yan, Zheng
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