CacheFiles: Provide read-and-reset release counters for cachefilesd
Provide read-and-reset objects- and blocks-released counters for cachefilesd
to use to work out whether there's anything new that can be culled.
One of the problems cachefilesd has is that if all the objects in the cache
are pinned by inodes lying dormant in the kernel inode cache, there isn't
anything for it to cull. In such a case, it just spins around walking the
filesystem tree and scanning for something to cull. This eats up a lot of
CPU time.
By telling cachefilesd if there have been any releases, the daemon can
sleep until there is the possibility of something to do.
cachefilesd finds this information by the following means:
(1) When the control fd is read, the kernel presents a list of values of
interest. "freleased=N" and "breleased=N" are added to this list to
indicate the number of files released and number of blocks released
since the last read call. At this point the counters are reset.
(2) POLLIN is signalled if the number of files released becomes greater
than 0.
Note that by 'released' it just means that the kernel has released its
interest in those files for the moment, not necessarily that the files
should be deleted from the cache.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
index 9c4b737..2fcde1a 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@
struct rb_root active_nodes; /* active nodes (can't be culled) */
rwlock_t active_lock; /* lock for active_nodes */
atomic_t gravecounter; /* graveyard uniquifier */
+ atomic_t f_released; /* number of objects released lately */
+ atomic_long_t b_released; /* number of blocks released lately */
unsigned frun_percent; /* when to stop culling (% files) */
unsigned fcull_percent; /* when to start culling (% files) */
unsigned fstop_percent; /* when to stop allocating (% files) */
@@ -157,6 +159,8 @@
/*
* namei.c
*/
+extern void cachefiles_mark_object_inactive(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
+ struct cachefiles_object *object);
extern int cachefiles_delete_object(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
struct cachefiles_object *object);
extern int cachefiles_walk_to_object(struct cachefiles_object *parent,