Add zfs_sb_prune_aliases() function

For kernels which do not implement a per-suberblock shrinker,
those older than Linux 3.1, the shrink_dcache_parent() function
was used to attempt to reclaim dentries.  This was found not be
entirely reliable and could lead to performance issues on older
kernels running meta-data heavy workloads.

To address this issue a zfs_sb_prune_aliases() function has been
added to implement this functionality.  It relies on traversing
the list of znodes for a filesystem and adding them to a private
list with a reference held.  The private list can then be safely
walked outside the z_znodes_lock to prune dentires and drop the
last reference so the inode can be freed.

This provides the same synchronous behavior as the per-filesystem
shrinker and has the advantage of depending on only long standing
interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes #3501
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Brian Behlendorf
2015-06-18 09:21:19 -07:00
parent 4c6a700910
commit 218b4e0a76
3 changed files with 84 additions and 11 deletions
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@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([ZFS_AC_CONFIG_KERNEL], [
ZFS_AC_KERNEL_INSERT_INODE_LOCKED
ZFS_AC_KERNEL_D_MAKE_ROOT
ZFS_AC_KERNEL_D_OBTAIN_ALIAS
ZFS_AC_KERNEL_D_PRUNE_ALIASES
ZFS_AC_KERNEL_D_SET_D_OP
ZFS_AC_KERNEL_D_REVALIDATE_NAMEIDATA
ZFS_AC_KERNEL_CONST_DENTRY_OPERATIONS