Brian Behlendorf 2cbb06b561 Restructure per-filesystem reclaim ... Originally when the ARC prune callback was introduced the idea was to register a single callback for the ZPL. The ARC could invoke this call back if it needed the ZPL to drop dentries, inodes, or other cache objects which might be pinning buffers in the ARC. The ZPL would iterate over all ZFS super blocks and perform the reclaim. For the most part this design has worked well but due to limitations in 2.6.35 and earlier kernels there were some problems. This patch is designed to address those issues. 1) iterate_supers_type() is not provided by all kernels which makes it impossible to safely iterate over all zpl_fs_type filesystems in a single callback. The most straight forward and portable way to resolve this is to register a callback per-filesystem during mount. The arc_*_prune_callback() functions have always supported multiple callbacks so this is functionally a very small change. 2) Commit 050d22b removed the non-portable shrink_dcache_memory() and shrink_icache_memory() functions and didn't replace them with equivalent functionality. This meant that for Linux 3.1 and older kernels the ARC had no mechanism to drop dentries and inodes from the caches if needed. This patch adds that missing functionality by calling shrink_dcache_parent() to release dentries which may be pinning inodes. This will result in all unused cache entries being dropped which is a bit heavy handed but it's the only interface available for old kernels. 3) A zpl_drop_inode() callback is registered for kernels older than 2.6.35 which do not support the .evict_inode callback. This ensures that when the last reference on an inode is dropped it is immediately removed from the cache. If this isn't done than inode can end up on the global unused LRU with no mechanism available to ZFS to drop them. Since the ARC buffers are not dropped the hottest inodes can still be recreated without performing disk IO. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Pavel Snajdr <snajpa@snajpa.net> Issue #3160		2015-03-20 10:35:20 -07:00
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man1	Make user stack limit configurable	2014-09-30 10:46:55 -07:00
man5	Restructure per-filesystem reclaim	2015-03-20 10:35:20 -07:00
man8	Move duplicate information about the 'zfs send -e' option.	2015-03-19 10:39:43 -07:00
Makefile.am	Create mount.zfs, zinject, and zpios man pages.	2013-03-13 13:41:22 -07:00