Re: [patch 9/9] mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check

[Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>]

On 01/10/2014 01:10 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Previously, page cache radix tree nodes were freed after reclaim
> emptied out their page pointers.  But now reclaim stores shadow
> entries in their place, which are only reclaimed when the inodes
> themselves are reclaimed.  This is problematic for bigger files that
> are still in use after they have a significant amount of their cache
> reclaimed, without any of those pages actually refaulting.  The shadow
> entries will just sit there and waste memory.  In the worst case, the
> shadow entries will accumulate until the machine runs out of memory.
> 
> To get this under control, the VM will track radix tree nodes
> exclusively containing shadow entries on a per-NUMA node list.
> Per-NUMA rather than global because we expect the radix tree nodes
> themselves to be allocated node-locally and we want to reduce
> cross-node references of otherwise independent cache workloads.  A
> simple shrinker will then reclaim these nodes on memory pressure.

> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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