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

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Message-ID: <1273589216.2674.14.camel@doink>
Date:	Tue, 11 May 2010 09:46:56 -0500
From:	Alex Elder <aelder@....com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	xfs@....sgi.com, Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [078/117] xfs: add a shrinker to background inode reclaim

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@....com>

> ------------------
> 
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
> 
> 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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