From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 inode cache eats system, news at 11
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:26:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <408DD2D5.1040306@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040426181235.2b5b62c8.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.6-rc2/2.6.6-rc2-mm2/broken-out/slab-order-0-for-vfs-caches.patch
>
> is not a completely happy solution, but it should fix things up.
Another thing you could be doing is not zeroing swapper->nr
if the shrinker function doesn't do anything, in order to try
to maintain pressure on the dcache. This would be similar to
your deferred list idea.
But I guess that using 0 order allocations for these GFP_NOFS
caches means you would be losing far less dcache pressure in
this way, so it might not make much difference.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-27 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-26 17:18 ext3 inode cache eats system, news at 11 Jonathan Corbet
2004-04-26 17:58 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-04-27 1:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-27 3:26 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-04-27 4:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-27 4:17 ` Nick Piggin
2004-04-28 10:41 ` Jose R. Santos
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