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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] Remove nrexceptional tracking
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:18:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201026151849.24232-1-willy@infradead.org> (raw)

We actually use nrexceptional for very little these days.  It's a minor
pain to keep in sync with nrpages, but the pain becomes much bigger
with the THP patches because we don't know how many indices a shadow
entry occupies.  It's easier to just remove it than keep it accurate.

Also, we save 8 bytes per inode which is nothing to sneeze at; on my
laptop, it would improve shmem_inode_cache from 22 to 23 objects per
16kB, and inode_cache from 26 to 27 objects.  Combined, that saves
a megabyte of memory from a combined usage of 25MB for both caches.
Unfortunately, ext4 doesn't cross a magic boundary, so it doesn't save
any memory for ext4.

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) (4):
  mm: Introduce and use mapping_empty
  mm: Stop accounting shadow entries
  dax: Account DAX entries as nrpages
  mm: Remove nrexceptional from inode

 fs/block_dev.c          |  2 +-
 fs/dax.c                |  8 ++++----
 fs/gfs2/glock.c         |  3 +--
 fs/inode.c              |  2 +-
 include/linux/fs.h      |  2 --
 include/linux/pagemap.h |  5 +++++
 mm/filemap.c            | 16 ----------------
 mm/swap_state.c         |  4 ----
 mm/truncate.c           | 19 +++----------------
 mm/workingset.c         |  1 -
 10 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

-- 
2.28.0


             reply	other threads:[~2020-10-26 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-26 15:18 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) [this message]
2020-10-26 15:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: Introduce and use mapping_empty Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-01-21 20:42   ` Johannes Weiner
2021-01-21 21:18     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-10-26 15:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: Stop accounting shadow entries Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-01-21 20:44   ` Johannes Weiner
2020-10-26 15:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] dax: Account DAX entries as nrpages Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-01-21 20:46   ` Johannes Weiner
2020-10-26 15:18 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] mm: Remove nrexceptional from inode Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2021-01-21 20:47   ` Johannes Weiner
2021-01-21 18:43 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Remove nrexceptional tracking Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-13  2:35   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-22 19:38 ` William Kucharski

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