From 5132ba8f2b7705fb6b06fa6ad3d009233c816b67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:15:10 +0000 Subject: xfs: don't cache inodes read through bulkstat When we read inodes via bulkstat, we generally only read them once and then throw them away - they never get used again. If we retain them in cache, then it simply causes the working set of inodes and other cached items to be reclaimed just so the inode cache can grow. Avoid this problem by marking inodes read by bulkstat not to be cached and check this flag in .drop_inode to determine whether the inode should be added to the VFS LRU or not. If the inode lookup hits an already cached inode, then don't set the flag. If the inode lookup hits an inode marked with no cache flag, remove the flag and allow it to be cached once the current reference goes away. Inodes marked as not cached will get cleaned up by the background inode reclaim or via memory pressure, so they will still generate some short term cache pressure. They will, however, be reclaimed much sooner and in preference to cache hot inodes. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Ben Myers --- fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_super.c') diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c index 5484888d39c..e1c623b43ab 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c @@ -950,6 +950,22 @@ xfs_fs_evict_inode( xfs_inactive(ip); } +/* + * We do an unlocked check for XFS_IDONTCACHE here because we are already + * serialised against cache hits here via the inode->i_lock and igrab() in + * xfs_iget_cache_hit(). Hence a lookup that might clear this flag will not be + * racing with us, and it avoids needing to grab a spinlock here for every inode + * we drop the final reference on. + */ +STATIC int +xfs_fs_drop_inode( + struct inode *inode) +{ + struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(inode); + + return generic_drop_inode(inode) || (ip->i_flags & XFS_IDONTCACHE); +} + STATIC void xfs_free_fsname( struct xfs_mount *mp) @@ -1434,6 +1450,7 @@ static const struct super_operations xfs_super_operations = { .destroy_inode = xfs_fs_destroy_inode, .dirty_inode = xfs_fs_dirty_inode, .evict_inode = xfs_fs_evict_inode, + .drop_inode = xfs_fs_drop_inode, .put_super = xfs_fs_put_super, .sync_fs = xfs_fs_sync_fs, .freeze_fs = xfs_fs_freeze, -- cgit v1.2.3