linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan.c: drop all inode/dentry cache from LRU

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Message-ID: <CALOAHbCGhRymJhKLbSXzwHszUtBexE9iD=MuywEEdROvXCrh+Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 May 2019 22:15:18 +0800
From:   Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
To:     Sahitya Tummala <stummala@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan.c: drop all inode/dentry cache from LRU

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 4:06 PM Sahitya Tummala <stummala@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>
> This is important for the scenario where FBE (file based encryption)
> is enabled. With FBE, the encryption context needed to en/decrypt a file
> will be stored in inode and any inode that is left in the cache after
> drop_caches is done will be a problem. For ex, in Android, drop_caches
> will be used when switching work profiles.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index d96c547..b48926f 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ void drop_slab_node(int nid)
>                 do {
>                         freed += shrink_slab(GFP_KERNEL, nid, memcg, 0);
>                 } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)) != NULL);
> -       } while (freed > 10);
> +       } while (freed != 0);
>  }

Perhaps that is not enough, because the shrink may stop when scan
count is less than SHRINK_BATCH.
Pls. see do_shrink_slab.

What about set shrinker->batch to 1 in this case ?

Thanks
Yafang