Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Remove nrexceptional tracking

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

Ping?  These patches still apply to next-20210121.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:18:45PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> 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(-)
> 
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> 2.28.0
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