On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:03:10 +0800 Eryu Guan <guaneryu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 07:15:23PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > > We don't require a dedicated thread for fsnotify cleanup. Switch it over > > to a workqueue job instead that runs on the system_unbound_wq. > > > > In the interest of not thrashing the queued job too often when there are > > a lot of marks being removed, we delay the reaper job slightly when > > queueing it, to allow several to gather on the list. > > > > Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@xxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > With these two patches applied on top of r.5-rc3, the same test passed > 2-hour stress run, also survived stress test that forks 5 processes > running the same test program for 30 minutes. > > Thanks for looking into this! > > Eryu Thanks for reporting and testing the patches. Yes, I tested them too while running your reproducer and watched the size of the inotify_inode_mark slab. It seemed to stay pretty stable with these patches as well. Andrew, would you mind picking up these patches since you merged the original one? Thanks, -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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