[PATCH 22/29] bcache: shrink btree node cache after bch_btree_check()

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When cache set starts, bch_btree_check() will check all bkeys on cache
device by calculating the checksum. This operation will consume a huge
number of system memory if there are a lot of data cached. Since bcache
uses its own mca cache to maintain all its read-in btree nodes, and only
releases the cache space when system memory manage code starts to shrink
caches. There is will be a delay between bch_btree_check() returns and
the bcache shrink code gets called, so following memory allocatiion
might fail after bch_btree_check() finished. The most frequent one is
failure of creating allocator kernel thread.

This patch tries to proactively call bcache mca shrinker routine to
release around 25% cache memory, to help following memory allocation
to success. 'Around 25% cache memory' means when mca shrnker tries to
release cache memory, it might have to skip some busy memory objects,
so the result might be a few less than the expected amount.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
index cf5673af3143..4a6406b53de1 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -1866,6 +1866,24 @@ static int run_cache_set(struct cache_set *c)
 		if (bch_btree_check(c))
 			goto err;
 
+		/*
+		 * bch_btree_check() may occupy too much system memory which
+		 * will fail memory allocation operations in the following
+		 * routines before kernel triggers memory shrinker call backs.
+		 * Shrinking 25% mca cache memory proactively here to avoid
+		 * potential memory allocation failure.
+		 */
+		if (!c->shrinker_disabled) {
+			struct shrink_control sc;
+
+			sc.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL;
+			sc.nr_to_scan =
+				c->shrink.count_objects(&c->shrink, &sc) / 4;
+			pr_debug("try to shrink %lu (25%%) cached btree node",
+				 sc.nr_to_scan);
+			c->shrink.scan_objects(&c->shrink, &sc);
+		}
+
 		bch_journal_mark(c, &journal);
 		bch_initial_gc_finish(c);
 		pr_debug("btree_check() done");
-- 
2.16.4




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