When doing echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, we wish to free up as much inode and dentry slab as possible. This path is updated to flush any pending iputs and dputs once the shrinkers are called. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/drop_caches.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c index 3e5637f..1e47470 100644 --- a/fs/drop_caches.c +++ b/fs/drop_caches.c @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ static void drop_slab(void) do { nr_objects = shrink_slab(1000, GFP_KERNEL, 1000); } while (nr_objects > 10); + dput_drain_all(); } int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html