On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:26:12PM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote: > I have a question regarding the SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT flag with which > BTRFS caches are created. Currently there isn't a single usage of > register_shrinker under fs/btrfs.
The SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT flag has been there since the first versions in 2007 (when shrinkeres did not exist) but I can't find any specific reason why. > Apart from the inode cache which is > being shrunk from the generic super_cache_scan I don't think the memory > used for those caches should be accounted as reclaimable? I agree, in most cases I don't see any possibility to reclaim the objects earlier than the explicit free. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
