Bill Davenport wrote:
>
> I've got a system which has a fairly large amount of physical memory (2GB)
> that experiences
> performance problems after a large number of files have been accessed.
>
> ...
Your analysis is 100% correct. It's a problem.
There's a fix for this in Andrea's kernel.
> ...
>
> and I'd like to change it to:
>
> void prune_icache(int goal)
> {
> ...
> while (entry != &inode_unused)
> {
> ...
> if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_CLEAR|I_LOCK))
> continue;
> if ((inode->i_state != 0) || inode_has_buffers(inode))
> continue;
> if (inode->i_data.nrpages != 0) {
> if ((!list_empty(&inode->i_data.dirty_pages)) ||
> (!list_empty(&inode->i_data.locked_pages))) {
> /* skip if any dirty or locked pages */
> continue;
> }
> }
locked_pages tends to hold clean, unlocked pages, alas. Testing
->dirty_pages makes sense.
If there are no dirty pages then you can run invalidate_inode_pages();
chances are, that will bring ->nrpages to zero, and all is well.
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