Re: [GIT PULL] Shrinker fixes for XFS for 2.6.36-rc6

From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Shrinker fixes for XFS for 2.6.36-rc6
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:32:38 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100720233238.GS32635@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100720004630.GH23223@dastard>

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:46:30AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> The following patches address shrinker lockdep and performance
> regressions introduced into XFS in 2.6.34 when a shrinker was
> added at the last moment to address OOM issues with lazy XFS inode
> reclaim.
> 
> The first two patches are the saem as I originally posted to solve
> the problem for 2.6.34. They did not pass review in time for 2.6.34,
> and attempts to address said review comments resulted in a bigger,
> more contentious patchset that has much bigger issues than this
> patchset. Time has run out and I really don't want to have another
> kernel released with XFS causing lockdep to trigger the moment
> memory reclaim starts, so I'm asking if you will accept the original
> fixes I posted for the problem.
> 
> The third patch addresses shrinker inode scanning performance
> problems raised in recently here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16348
> 
> Please consider these commits for 2.6.26-rc6.

Ijust rebased the series - the shrinker context patch did not pickup
the new shrinker in the TTM DRM code for radeon. New pull-request output
below.

Cheers,

Dave.

The following changes since commit d0c6f6258478e1dba532bf7c28e2cd6e1047d3a4:

  Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip (2010-07-19 13:19:32 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/xfsdev shrinker

Dave Chinner (3):
      mm: add context argument to shrinker callback
      xfs: convert inode shrinker to per-filesystem contexts
      xfs: track AGs with reclaimable inodes in per-ag radix tree

 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c                   |    2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c      |    2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c |    2 +-
 fs/dcache.c                          |    2 +-
 fs/gfs2/glock.c                      |    2 +-
 fs/gfs2/quota.c                      |    2 +-
 fs/gfs2/quota.h                      |    2 +-
 fs/inode.c                           |    2 +-
 fs/mbcache.c                         |    5 +-
 fs/nfs/dir.c                         |    2 +-
 fs/nfs/internal.h                    |    3 +-
 fs/quota/dquot.c                     |    2 +-
 fs/ubifs/shrinker.c                  |    2 +-
 fs/ubifs/ubifs.h                     |    2 +-
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c           |    5 +-
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c         |    2 -
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c          |  130 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.h          |    2 -
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_trace.h         |    3 +
 fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm.c                |    7 ++-
 fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h                   |    2 +-
 include/linux/mm.h                   |    2 +-
 mm/vmscan.c                          |    8 ++-
 net/sunrpc/auth.c                    |    2 +-
 24 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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