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Message-ID: <20130301162651.GB16485@thunk.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:26:51 -0500 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> Cc: "gnehzuil.liu" <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>, Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>, "linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: optimize ext4_es_shrink() On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 11:11:30AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 12:00:29AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > When the system is under memory pressure, ext4_es_srhink() will get > > called very often. So optimize returning the number of items in the > > file system's extent status cache by keeping a per-filesystem count, > > instead of calculating it each time by scanning all of the inodes in > > the extent status cache. > > > > Also rename the slab used for the extent status cache to be > > "ext4_extent_status" so it's obviousl the slab in question is created > > by ext4. > > Seems to work with no ill effects afaics. Thanks for reporting the problem and testing the fix! I'll add a Reported-by: and Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> to the commit. (Unless of course you have an objection, in which case let me know.) - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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