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authorStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2011-07-25 21:59:46 +0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2011-07-25 22:53:52 +0400
commit5f00bcb38ef9a980a33c6dbdc0044964b05f22dd (patch)
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parentb6844e8f64920cdee620157252169ba63afb0c89 (diff)
downloadlinux-5f00bcb38ef9a980a33c6dbdc0044964b05f22dd.tar.xz
Merge branch 'master' into devel and apply fixup from Stephen Rothwell:
vfs/nfs: fixup for nfs_open_context change Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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+#ifndef _LINUX_SHRINKER_H
+#define _LINUX_SHRINKER_H
+
+/*
+ * This struct is used to pass information from page reclaim to the shrinkers.
+ * We consolidate the values for easier extention later.
+ */
+struct shrink_control {
+ gfp_t gfp_mask;
+
+ /* How many slab objects shrinker() should scan and try to reclaim */
+ unsigned long nr_to_scan;
+};
+
+/*
+ * A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches.
+ *
+ * 'sc' is passed shrink_control which includes a count 'nr_to_scan'
+ * and a 'gfpmask'. It should look through the least-recently-used
+ * 'nr_to_scan' entries and attempt to free them up. It should return
+ * the number of objects which remain in the cache. If it returns -1, it means
+ * it cannot do any scanning at this time (eg. there is a risk of deadlock).
+ *
+ * The 'gfpmask' refers to the allocation we are currently trying to
+ * fulfil.
+ *
+ * Note that 'shrink' will be passed nr_to_scan == 0 when the VM is
+ * querying the cache size, so a fastpath for that case is appropriate.
+ */
+struct shrinker {
+ int (*shrink)(struct shrinker *, struct shrink_control *sc);
+ int seeks; /* seeks to recreate an obj */
+ long batch; /* reclaim batch size, 0 = default */
+
+ /* These are for internal use */
+ struct list_head list;
+ long nr; /* objs pending delete */
+};
+#define DEFAULT_SEEKS 2 /* A good number if you don't know better. */
+extern void register_shrinker(struct shrinker *);
+extern void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *);
+#endif