Re: [078/117] xfs: add a shrinker to background inode reclaim

From: Alex Elder
Date: Tue May 11 2010 - 10:48:29 EST


On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 15:32 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 2.6.33-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

Acked-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx>

> ------------------
>
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 9bf729c0af67897ea8498ce17c29b0683f7f2028 upstream
>
> On low memory boxes or those with highmem, kernel can OOM before the
> background reclaims inodes via xfssyncd. Add a shrinker to run inode
> reclaim so that it inode reclaim is expedited when memory is low.
>
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