Lock contention, by itself, shouldn't indicate a stop condition to the
kernel's slab shrinker. Doing so can cause stalls when the kernel is
trying to free large parts of the cache such as is done by drop_caches
Also, perhaps arc_reclaim_lock should be a spinlock, and this code
eliminated.
AKAMAI: zfs: CR 3593801
Reviewed-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com>
Issue #6035
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