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The current shrinker callout API uses an a single shrinker call for multiple functions. To determine the function, a special magical value is passed in a parameter to change the behaviour. This complicates the implementation and return value specification for the different behaviours. Separate the two different behaviours into separate operations, one to return a count of freeable objects in the cache, and another to scan a certain number of objects in the cache for freeing. In defining these new operations, ensure the return values and resultant behaviours are clearly defined and documented. Modify shrink_slab() to use the new API and implement the callouts for all the existing shrinkers. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
62 lines
2.5 KiB
C
62 lines
2.5 KiB
C
#ifndef _LINUX_SHRINKER_H
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#define _LINUX_SHRINKER_H
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/*
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* This struct is used to pass information from page reclaim to the shrinkers.
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* We consolidate the values for easier extention later.
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*
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* The 'gfpmask' refers to the allocation we are currently trying to
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* fulfil.
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*
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* Note that 'shrink' will be passed nr_to_scan == 0 when the VM is
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* querying the cache size, so a fastpath for that case is appropriate.
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*/
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struct shrink_control {
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gfp_t gfp_mask;
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/* How many slab objects shrinker() should scan and try to reclaim */
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unsigned long nr_to_scan;
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};
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#define SHRINK_STOP (~0UL)
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/*
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* A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
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*
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* @shrink() should look through the least-recently-used 'nr_to_scan' entries
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* and attempt to free them up. It should return the number of objects which
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* remain in the cache. If it returns -1, it means it cannot do any scanning at
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* this time (eg. there is a risk of deadlock).
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*
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* @count_objects should return the number of freeable items in the cache. If
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* there are no objects to free or the number of freeable items cannot be
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* determined, it should return 0. No deadlock checks should be done during the
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* count callback - the shrinker relies on aggregating scan counts that couldn't
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* be executed due to potential deadlocks to be run at a later call when the
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* deadlock condition is no longer pending.
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*
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* @scan_objects will only be called if @count_objects returned a non-zero
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* value for the number of freeable objects. The callout should scan the cache
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* and attempt to free items from the cache. It should then return the number
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* of objects freed during the scan, or SHRINK_STOP if progress cannot be made
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* due to potential deadlocks. If SHRINK_STOP is returned, then no further
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* attempts to call the @scan_objects will be made from the current reclaim
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* context.
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*/
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struct shrinker {
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int (*shrink)(struct shrinker *, struct shrink_control *sc);
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unsigned long (*count_objects)(struct shrinker *,
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struct shrink_control *sc);
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unsigned long (*scan_objects)(struct shrinker *,
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struct shrink_control *sc);
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int seeks; /* seeks to recreate an obj */
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long batch; /* reclaim batch size, 0 = default */
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/* These are for internal use */
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struct list_head list;
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atomic_long_t nr_in_batch; /* objs pending delete */
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};
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#define DEFAULT_SEEKS 2 /* A good number if you don't know better. */
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extern void register_shrinker(struct shrinker *);
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extern void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *);
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#endif
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