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From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Subject: Re: vm/fs meetup details
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On Mon, 9 July 2007 09:29:38 +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 12:45:35PM +0200, JA?A?rn Engel wrote:
> > 
> > Oh certainly!  I should dust off my dcache_static patch.  Some dentries
> > are hands-off for the shrinker, basically mountpoints and tmpfs.  The
> > patch moves those to a seperate slab cache.
> 
> I doubt there's enough of those to make any difference - putting all
> the directories into another slab did little to reduce fragmentation
> (~18 months ago we tried that), so I don't think that this would help
> at all...

Interesting.  I suspect that the de-facto random cache eviction has a
bigger effect and overshadows everything else.  So the decisive step
would be to nuke all dentries in a given slab.

It wouldn't surprise me if your patch did make a difference afterwards.
With 32 dentries per slab, it doesn't take many pinned objects to pin
most slabs.

JA?rn

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