Re: [Lse-tech] lockmeter results comparing 2.4.17, 2.5.3, and 2.5.5

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:48:07 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> "Martin J. Bligh" wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > looks a little distressing - the hold times on inode_lock by prune_icache
> > look bad in terms of latency (contention is still low, but people are still
> > waiting on it for a very long time). Is this a transient thing, or do people
> > think this is going to be a problem?
>
> inode_lock hold times are a problem for other reasons.

ed mm/vmscan.c <<EOF
/shrink_icache_memory/s/priority/1/
w
q
EOF

and repeat the tests. Unreferenced inodes == useless inodes. Aging is
already taken care of in dcache and anything that had fallen through
is fair game.

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