linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] VFS: per-sb dentry lru list

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Date:	Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:09:31 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>
Cc:	Vasily Averin <vvs@...ru>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>,
	Olaf Hering <olh@...e.de>, Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] VFS: per-sb dentry lru list

On Monday 30 October 2006 16:34, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> > Quick search maybe, but your patch adds 2 pointers to each dentry in the
> > system... That's pretty expensive, as dentries are already using a *lot*
> > of ram.
>
> I don't see much problems with it... it is cache and it can be pruned if
> needed. Some time ago, for example, my patch introducing the same list for
> inodes was commited.

The ratio of dentries/PAGE is higher than ration of inodes/PAGE.
(On a x86_64 machine, 19 dentries per PAGE, 5 ext3 inodes per PAGE=

Therefore I suspect that the number of pages locked in dentry_cache because of 
one inuse dentry is higher.

>
> > Maybe an alternative would be to not have anymore a global dentry_unused,
> > but only per-sb unused dentries lists ?
>
> I don't know global LRU implementation based on per-sb lists, do you?
> If someone suggest the algorithm for more or less fair global LRU
> based on non-global list we will implement it. However, so far,
> AFAICS there were problems with it.

Using 32 bytes per dentry for unused LRUs sounds too much, maybe we should 
revert LRUS handling to timestamps or things like that.

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