[dm-devel] [PATCH 10/10] dm-zoned: Drive-managed zoned block device target
Bart Van Assche
Bart.VanAssche at sandisk.com
Fri Apr 28 21:14:25 UTC 2017
On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 12:55 +0900, damien.lemoal at wdc.com wrote:
> +static void dmz_shrink_mblock_cache(struct dmz_target *dmz, bool idle)
> +{
> + struct dmz_mblock *mblk;
> + unsigned int nr_mblks;
> +
> + if (!dmz->max_nr_mblks)
> + return;
> +
> + if (idle)
> + nr_mblks = dmz->min_nr_mblks;
> + else
> + nr_mblks = dmz->max_nr_mblks;
> +
> + while (atomic_read(&dmz->nr_mblks) > nr_mblks &&
> + !list_empty(&dmz->mblk_lru_list)) {
> + mblk = list_first_entry(&dmz->mblk_lru_list,
> + struct dmz_mblock, link);
> + list_del_init(&mblk->link);
> + rb_erase(&mblk->node, &dmz->mblk_rbtree);
> + dmz_free_mblock(dmz, mblk);
> + }
> +}
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Hello Damien,
Is mblk_lru_list perhaps a cache that should be freed under memory pressure?
If so, if you repost this patch series please add a shrinker (struct shrinker
+ register_shrinker()) such that this memory can be freed if memory pressure
becomes too high.
Thanks,
Bart.
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