mirror_zfs/module
Brian Behlendorf 218b4e0a76 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
2015-06-22 10:22:49 -07:00
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avl Illumos 4873 - zvol unmap calls can take a very long time for larger datasets 2015-04-28 16:24:03 -07:00
nvpair Retire spl_module_init()/spl_module_fini() 2015-02-24 11:37:44 -08:00
unicode Retire spl_module_init()/spl_module_fini() 2015-02-24 11:37:44 -08:00
zcommon Illumos 5027 - zfs large block support 2015-05-11 12:23:16 -07:00
zfs Add zfs_sb_prune_aliases() function 2015-06-22 10:22:49 -07:00
zpios Retire spl_module_init()/spl_module_fini() 2015-02-24 11:37:44 -08:00
.gitignore gitignore: anchor entries at their respective directory 2013-04-02 10:50:17 -07:00
Makefile.in Fix modules installation directory 2014-10-28 09:46:14 -07:00