From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
LINUXFS-ML <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
xemul@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] A few patches for dcache
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:59:51 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110729065951.GE5404@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110729055918.GB15883@sun>
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 09:59:18AM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:25:03PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> ...
> >
> > The VFS shrinker code is now already called on a per-sb basis. Each
> > sb has it's own shrinker context that deals with dentries, inodes
> > and anything a filesystem wants to have shrunk in the call. That
> > solves the original issue I had with your "limit the dentry cache
> > size" patch series in that it didn't shrink or limit the other VFS
> > caches that were the ones that were really consuming all your
> > memory...
>
> Thanks for comments, Dave! Still the read only lock without
> increasing sequence number might be useful, no? (patch 1)
I'll defer to Al on that one - the intricacies of the rename locking
are way over my head.
FWIW, the problems with the per-sb dcache LRU lock seem to be gone -
it's not causing my test machines to fall over with the current
Linus tree like it was during 2.6.39-rc and 3.0-rc kernels...
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-29 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-28 13:12 [patch 0/3] A few patches for dcache Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-28 13:12 ` [patch 1/3] vfs, dcache: Introduce lighten r/o rename_lock lockers Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-28 13:12 ` [patch 2/3] vfs, dcache: Factor out rename_lock locking Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-28 13:12 ` [patch 3/3] vfs: Make the rename_lock per-sb Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-29 3:25 ` [patch 0/3] A few patches for dcache Dave Chinner
2011-07-29 5:59 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-29 6:59 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-07-29 7:01 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-07-29 7:24 ` Al Viro
2011-07-29 7:50 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-15 7:42 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-08-24 6:31 ` Pavel Emelyanov
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