From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glauber Costa Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/28] dcache: remove dentries from LRU before putting on dispose list Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 10:56:13 +0400 Message-ID: <515D240D.7040901@parallels.com> References: <1364548450-28254-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1364548450-28254-6-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <20130404061938.GD12011@dastard> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sha Zhengju , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Hugh Dickins , , Dave Chinner , Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , , Andrew Morton To: Dave Chinner Return-path: Received: from mx2.parallels.com ([199.115.105.18]:50086 "EHLO mx2.parallels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932888Ab3DDGzh (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Apr 2013 02:55:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130404061938.GD12011@dastard> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/04/2013 10:19 AM, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 02:51:43PM +0800, Sha Zhengju wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: >>> From: Dave Chinner >>> @@ -884,6 +907,28 @@ relock: >>> shrink_dentry_list(&tmp); >>> } >>> >>> +/* >>> + * Mark all the dentries as on being the dispose list so we don't think >>> they are >>> + * still on the LRU if we try to kill them from ascending the parent >>> chain in >>> + * try_prune_one_dentry() rather than directly from the dispose list. >>> + */ >>> +static void >>> +shrink_dcache_list( >>> + struct list_head *dispose) >>> +{ >>> + struct dentry *dentry; >>> + >>> + rcu_read_lock(); >>> + list_for_each_entry_rcu(dentry, dispose, d_lru) { >>> + spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); >>> + dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST; >>> + this_cpu_dec(nr_dentry_unused); >>> >> >> Why here dec nr_dentry_unused again? Has it been decreased in the following >> shrink_dcache_sb()? > > You are right, that's a bugi as we've already accounted for the > dentry being pulled off the LRU list. Good catch. > Ok, I folded it in the original patch with the due credits for better bisection.