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From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
To: devel@openvz.org
Cc: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>,
	Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] VFS: per-sb dentry lru list
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:28:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45459B92.400@sw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061030042419.GW8394166@melbourne.sgi.com>

David,

>>The proposed fix prevents this issue by using per-sb dentry LRU list. It
>>provides very quickly search for the unused dentries for given super block thus
>>forcing shrinking always making good progress.
> 
> 
> We've been down this path before:
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114861109717260&w=2
> 
> A lot of comments on per-sb unused dentry lists were made in
> the threads associated with the above. other solutions were
> found to the problem that the above patch addressed, but I don't
> think any of them have made it to mainline yet. You might want
> to have a bit of a read of these threads first...
The major difference between our patch and the one discussed in the link
it that we keep both global and per-sb dentry LRU lists.
Thus, when needed normal LRU is used and prune logic is unchanged,
while umount/remount use per-sb list and do its job faster.

Thanks,
Kirill

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-30  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-25 12:30 [Q] missing unused dentry in prune_dcache()? Vasily Averin
2006-10-25 13:51 ` David Howells
2006-10-25 13:58   ` Vasily Averin
2006-10-25 14:23     ` David Howells
2006-10-26 11:36       ` Vasily Averin
2006-10-26 13:25         ` David Howells
2006-10-27  8:05           ` Vasily Averin
2006-10-27 10:42             ` David Howells
2006-10-27 11:50               ` Vasily Averin
2006-10-27 12:11                 ` David Howells
2006-10-27 13:47                   ` Vasily Averin
2006-10-27 14:29                     ` David Howells
2006-10-27 14:39                       ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-10-27 14:05                   ` [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] VFS: per-sb dentry lru list Vasily Averin
2006-10-27 18:06                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-30 14:24                       ` Vasily Averin
2006-10-30 15:08                         ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-30 15:34                           ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-10-30 16:09                             ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-30 15:14                       ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-10-30  4:24                     ` David Chinner
2006-10-30  6:28                       ` Kirill Korotaev [this message]
2006-10-31  4:38                         ` [Devel] " Neil Brown
2006-10-31 10:40                           ` David Howells
2006-11-01  6:32                             ` Neil Brown
2006-11-01 13:32                               ` Vasily Averin
2006-11-14  5:44                                 ` Neil Brown
2006-11-14  6:12                                   ` Vasily Averin
2006-10-31 13:08                           ` Vasily Averin
2006-11-01 10:55                           ` [Devel] " Kirill Korotaev
2006-11-14  4:51                             ` Neil Brown
2006-11-14  9:29                               ` David Howells
2006-10-27 13:42       ` [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] VFS: missing unused dentry in prune_dcache() Vasily Averin
2006-10-27 14:24         ` David Howells
2006-10-26 11:49 ` [Q] missing unused dentry in prune_dcache()? Vasily Averin
2006-10-26 12:33   ` David Howells
2006-10-26 13:23   ` David Howells
2006-10-26 13:58     ` Vasily Averin
2006-10-26 14:07       ` David Howells
2006-10-27  6:32     ` Vasily Averin
2006-10-27  6:50       ` Vasily Averin
2006-10-27  9:36         ` David Howells
2006-10-31 13:24 ` [Q] missing ->d_delete() in shrink_dcache_for_umount()? Vasily Averin
2006-10-31 15:06   ` David Howells

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