Re: [patch 15/26] Slab defrag: Support generic defragmentation for inode slab caches

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> This is inverted: __GFP_FS is set if we may perform fs operations.

Sigh. 



Slab defragmentation: Only perform slab defrag if __GFP_FS is clear

Avoids slab defragmentation be triggered from filesystem operations.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

---
 mm/vmscan.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2.orig/mm/vmscan.c	2007-06-26 12:25:28.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/mm/vmscan.c	2007-06-26 12:40:44.000000000 -0700
@@ -233,8 +233,9 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long 
 		shrinker->nr += total_scan;
 	}
 	up_read(&shrinker_rwsem);
-	kmem_cache_defrag(sysctl_slab_defrag_ratio,
-		zone ? zone_to_nid(zone) : -1);
+	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)
+		kmem_cache_defrag(sysctl_slab_defrag_ratio,
+			zone ? zone_to_nid(zone) : -1);
 	return ret;
 }
 
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