Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Mike Waychison <> | Subject | [PATCH v1 7/8] Make drop_caches flush pending dput()s and iput()s | Date | Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:30:12 -0800 |
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When doing echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, we wish to free up as much inode and dentry slab as possible. This path is updated to flush any pending iputs and dputs once the shrinkers are called.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> ---
fs/drop_caches.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c index 3e5637f..1e47470 100644 --- a/fs/drop_caches.c +++ b/fs/drop_caches.c @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ static void drop_slab(void) do { nr_objects = shrink_slab(1000, GFP_KERNEL, 1000); } while (nr_objects > 10); + dput_drain_all(); } int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
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