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inode: Make unused inode LRU per superblock

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The inode unused list is currently a global LRU. This does not match
the other global filesystem cache - the dentry cache - which uses
per-superblock LRU lists. Hence we have related filesystem object
types using different LRU reclaimation schemes.

To enable a per-superblock filesystem cache shrinker, both of these
caches need to have per-sb unused object LRU lists. Hence this patch
converts the global inode LRU to per-sb LRUs.

The patch only does rudimentary per-sb propotioning in the shrinker
infrastructure, as this gets removed when the per-sb shrinker
callouts are introduced later on.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Dave Chinner 2011-07-08 14:14:39 +10:00 • committed by Al Viro
commit 98b745c647
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@ -1397,6 +1397,10 @@ struct super_block {
struct list_head s_dentry_lru; /* unused dentry lru */
int s_nr_dentry_unused; /* # of dentry on lru */
/* inode_lru_lock protects s_inode_lru and s_nr_inodes_unused */
struct list_head s_inode_lru; /* unused inode lru */
int s_nr_inodes_unused; /* # of inodes on lru */
struct block_device *s_bdev;
struct backing_dev_info *s_bdi;
struct mtd_info *s_mtd;