Re: shrink_caches inconsistancy

Craig Christophel (merlin@transgeek.com)
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:11:45 -0500


Well here is the fixed patch with __GFP_FS check removed from dqcache.
Thanks for the note.

Craig

> > Possibly incorrect __GFP_FS check added to the dqcache function. but
> > again consistancy is my goal.
>
> This check really isn't needed for shrink_dqcache() function. This
> function can never recurse into fs so there's no need to have __GFP_FS set.

diff -urN linux/fs/dcache.c linux.mt/fs/dcache.c
--- linux/fs/dcache.c Wed Dec 5 18:22:42 2001
+++ linux.mt/fs/dcache.c Wed Dec 5 18:22:26 2001
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@
* too much.
*
* Priority:
- * 0 - very urgent: shrink everything
+ * 1 - very urgent: shrink everything
* ...
* 6 - base-level: try to shrink a bit.
*/
diff -urN linux/fs/dquot.c linux.mt/fs/dquot.c
--- linux/fs/dquot.c Wed Dec 5 18:22:42 2001
+++ linux.mt/fs/dquot.c Thu Dec 6 10:09:24 2001
@@ -407,11 +407,28 @@
head = free_dquots.prev;
}
}
+/*
+ * This is called from kswapd when we think we need some
+ * more memory, but aren't really sure how much. So we
+ * carefully try to free a _bit_ of our dqcache, but not
+ * too much.
+ *
+ * Priority:
+ * 1 - very urgent: shrink everything
+ * ...
+ * 6 - base-level: try to shrink a bit.
+ */

int shrink_dqcache_memory(int priority, unsigned int gfp_mask)
{
+ int count = 0;
+
+
lock_kernel();
- prune_dqcache(nr_free_dquots / (priority + 1));
+
+ count = nr_free_dquots / priority;
+
+ prune_dqcache(count);
unlock_kernel();
kmem_cache_shrink(dquot_cachep);
return 0;
diff -urN linux/fs/inode.c linux.mt/fs/inode.c
--- linux/fs/inode.c Wed Dec 5 18:22:42 2001
+++ linux.mt/fs/inode.c Wed Dec 5 18:22:26 2001
@@ -707,7 +707,17 @@
if (goal)
schedule_task(&unused_inodes_flush_task);
}
-
+/*
+ * This is called from kswapd when we think we need some
+ * more memory, but aren't really sure how much. So we
+ * carefully try to free a _bit_ of our icache, but not
+ * too much.
+ *
+ * Priority:
+ * 1 - very urgent: shrink everything
+ * ...
+ * 6 - base-level: try to shrink a bit.
+ */
int shrink_icache_memory(int priority, int gfp_mask)
{
int count = 0;

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