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    mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages · a76cf1a4
    Roman Gushchin authored
    Spock reported that commit 172b06c3 ("mm: slowly shrink slabs with a
    relatively small number of objects") leads to a regression on his setup:
    periodically the majority of the pagecache is evicted without an obvious
    reason, while before the change the amount of free memory was balancing
    around the watermark.
    
    The reason behind is that the mentioned above change created some
    minimal background pressure on the inode cache.  The problem is that if
    an inode is considered to be reclaimed, all belonging pagecache page are
    stripped, no matter how many of them are there.  So, if a huge
    multi-gigabyte file is cached in the memory, and the goal is to reclaim
    only few slab objects (unused inodes), we still can eventually evict all
    gigabytes of the pagecache at once.
    
    The workload described by Spock has few large non-mapped files in the
    pagecache, so it's especially noticeable.
    
    To solve the problem let's postpone the reclaim of inodes, which have
    more than 1 attached page.  Let's wait until the pagecache pages will be
    evicted naturally by scanning the corresponding LRU lists, and only then
    reclaim the inode structure.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181023164302.20436-1-guro@fb.comSigned-off-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarSpock <dairinin@gmail.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarSpock <dairinin@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
    Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.19.x]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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