Without LRU item rotation, the shrinker visits only a few items on the end of the LRU list, and those would always be long-term OPEN files for NFSv4 workloads. That makes the filecache shrinker completely ineffective. Adopt the same strategy as the inode LRU by using LRU_ROTATE. Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/filecache.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c index 6e9e186334ab..bd6ba63f69ae 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c @@ -452,6 +452,7 @@ nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed(struct list_head *dispose) * * Return values: * %LRU_REMOVED: @item was removed from the LRU + * %LRU_ROTATED: @item is to be moved to the LRU tail * %LRU_SKIP: @item cannot be evicted */ static enum lru_status @@ -490,7 +491,7 @@ nfsd_file_lru_cb(struct list_head *item, struct list_lru_one *lru, if (test_and_clear_bit(NFSD_FILE_REFERENCED, &nf->nf_flags)) { trace_nfsd_file_gc_referenced(nf); - return LRU_SKIP; + return LRU_ROTATE; } if (!test_and_clear_bit(NFSD_FILE_HASHED, &nf->nf_flags)) { @@ -532,7 +533,7 @@ nfsd_file_gc(void) unsigned long ret; ret = list_lru_walk(&nfsd_file_lru, nfsd_file_lru_cb, - &dispose, LONG_MAX); + &dispose, list_lru_count(&nfsd_file_lru)); trace_nfsd_file_gc_removed(ret, list_lru_count(&nfsd_file_lru)); nfsd_file_gc_dispose_list(&dispose); }