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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] vmscan: fix initial shrinker size handling
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 02:17:21PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Shrinker function can returns -1, it means it cannot do anything without a risk of deadlock.
> For example prune_super() do this if it cannot grab superblock refrence, even if nr_to_scan=0.
> Currenly we interpret this like ULONG_MAX size shrinker, evaluate total_scan according this,
> and next time this shrinker can get really big pressure. Let's skip such shrinkers instead.
>
> Also make total_scan signed, otherwise check (total_scan < 0) below never works.

I've got a patch set I am going to post out today that makes this
irrelevant.

The patch set splits the shrinker api into 2 callbacks - a "count
objects" callback and an "scan objects" callback, getting rid of
this messy "pass nr-to_scan == 0 to count objects" wart altogether.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com


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