Re: [PATCH] mm: account reaped page cache on inode cache pruning

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:47:13 +0300
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> wrote:

> Inode cache pruning indirectly reclaims page-cache by invalidating mapping pages.
> Let's account them into reclaim-state to notice this progress in memory reclaimer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
> ---
>  fs/inode.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
> index ee4e66b..1f6c48d 100644
> --- a/fs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/inode.c
> @@ -692,6 +692,8 @@ void prune_icache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nr_to_scan)
>  	else
>  		__count_vm_events(PGINODESTEAL, reap);
>  	spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_lru_lock);
> +	if (current->reclaim_state)
> +		current->reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab += reap;
>  
>  	dispose_list(&freeable);
>  }

hm, yes, I suppose we should.

It seems to be cheating to use the "reclaimed_slab" field for this. 
Perhaps it would be cleaner to add an additional field to reclaim_state
for non-slab pages which were also reclaimed.  That's a cosmetic thing
and I guess we don't need to go that far, not sure...