Revert "mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages"
authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 23:35:51 +0000 (15:35 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:25:47 +0000 (10:25 +0100)
commit8d485d3a628bb46a86f232d9960ef64533aaf29d
tree6682ac3fb3b79eef82a8685e3bbe868e3b53c1f5
parent93769fef8d6122285b94b13fc8872847182f5440
Revert "mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages"

commit 69056ee6a8a3d576ed31e38b3b14c70d6c74edcc upstream.

This reverts commit a76cf1a474d7d ("mm: don't reclaim inodes with many
attached pages").

This change causes serious changes to page cache and inode cache
behaviour and balance, resulting in major performance regressions when
combining worklaods such as large file copies and kernel compiles.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202441

This change is a hack to work around the problems introduced by changing
how agressive shrinkers are on small caches in commit 172b06c32b94 ("mm:
slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects").  It
creates more problems than it solves, wasn't adequately reviewed or
tested, so it needs to be reverted.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190130041707.27750-2-david@fromorbit.com
Fixes: a76cf1a474d7d ("mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages")
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Wolfgang Walter <linux@stwm.de>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Spock <dairinin@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/inode.c