mirror_zfs/module/os/linux/zfs
Rob Norris 42b9995f88 linux/super: add tunable to request immediate reclaim of unused inodes
Traditionally, unused inodes would be held on the superblock inode cache
until the associated on-disk file is removed or the kernel requests
reclaim.  On filesystems with millions of rarely-used files, this can be
a lot of unusable memory.

Here we implement the superblock drop_inode method, and add a
zfs_delete_inode tunable to control its behaviour. By default it
continues the traditional behaviour, but when the tunable is enabled, we
signal that the inode should be deleted immediately when the last
reference is dropped, rather than cached. This releases the associated
data to the dbuf cache and ARC, allowing them to be reclaimed normally.

Sponsored-by: Klara, Inc.
Sponsored-by: Fastmail Pty Ltd
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Motin <alexander.motin@TrueNAS.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Norris <rob.norris@klarasystems.com>
Closes #17746
2025-09-17 16:34:09 -07:00
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abd_os.c Prefer VERIFY0P(n) over VERIFY3P(n, ==, NULL) 2025-08-07 11:41:42 -07:00
arc_os.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
mmp_os.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
policy.c cred: properly pass and test creds on other threads (#17273) 2025-04-29 16:27:48 -07:00
qat_compress.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
qat_crypt.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
qat.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
spa_misc_os.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
trace.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
vdev_disk.c vdev_disk_close: take disk write lock before destroying it 2025-09-15 12:43:44 -07:00
vdev_label_os.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
vdev_raidz.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
zfs_acl.c Prefer VERIFY0P(n) over VERIFY(n == NULL) 2025-08-07 11:41:37 -07:00
zfs_ctldir.c Prefer VERIFY0P(n) over VERIFY3P(n, ==, NULL) 2025-08-07 11:41:42 -07:00
zfs_debug.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
zfs_dir.c Prefer VERIFY0(n) over VERIFY3U(n, ==, 0) 2025-08-07 11:41:25 -07:00
zfs_file_os.c Enable zhack to work properly with 4k sector size disks 2025-09-10 15:01:32 -07:00
zfs_ioctl_os.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
zfs_racct.c Wire O_DIRECT also to Uncached I/O (#17218) 2025-05-13 14:26:55 -07:00
zfs_sysfs.c Prefer VERIFY0P(n) over VERIFY(n == NULL) 2025-08-07 11:41:37 -07:00
zfs_uio.c linux/uio: remove "skip" offset for UIO_ITER 2025-05-11 12:46:40 -04:00
zfs_vfsops.c Linux: zfs_sync: remove explicit suspend check 2025-08-08 16:43:50 -07:00
zfs_vnops_os.c Linux: zfs_putpage: handle page writeback errors 2025-08-08 16:43:38 -07:00
zfs_znode_os.c Prefer VERIFY0P(n) over VERIFY3P(n, ==, NULL) 2025-08-07 11:41:42 -07:00
zio_crypt.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
zpl_ctldir.c Linux 6.17: d_set_d_op() is no longer available 2025-09-09 17:06:55 -07:00
zpl_export.c SPDX: license tags: CDDL-1.0 2025-03-13 17:56:27 -07:00
zpl_file_range.c ioctl: remove FICLONE/FICLONERANGE/FIDEDUPERANGE compat 2025-05-08 10:32:52 -04:00
zpl_file.c Linux: zfs_putpage: handle page writeback errors 2025-08-08 16:43:38 -07:00
zpl_inode.c Prefer VERIFY0(n) over VERIFY(n == 0) 2025-08-07 11:40:59 -07:00
zpl_super.c linux/super: add tunable to request immediate reclaim of unused inodes 2025-09-17 16:34:09 -07:00
zpl_xattr.c Prefer VERIFY0P(n) over VERIFY3P(n, ==, NULL) 2025-08-07 11:41:42 -07:00
zvol_os.c zvol: stop using zvol_state_lock to protect OS-side private data 2025-08-19 10:06:34 -07:00