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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/shrinker.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/shrinker.h | 54 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/shrinker.h b/include/linux/shrinker.h index ac6b8ee07825..68c097077ef0 100644 --- a/include/linux/shrinker.h +++ b/include/linux/shrinker.h @@ -4,39 +4,67 @@ /* * This struct is used to pass information from page reclaim to the shrinkers. * We consolidate the values for easier extention later. + * + * The 'gfpmask' refers to the allocation we are currently trying to + * fulfil. */ struct shrink_control { gfp_t gfp_mask; - /* How many slab objects shrinker() should scan and try to reclaim */ + /* + * How many objects scan_objects should scan and try to reclaim. + * This is reset before every call, so it is safe for callees + * to modify. + */ unsigned long nr_to_scan; + + /* shrink from these nodes */ + nodemask_t nodes_to_scan; + /* current node being shrunk (for NUMA aware shrinkers) */ + int nid; }; +#define SHRINK_STOP (~0UL) /* * 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). + * @count_objects should return the number of freeable items in the cache. If + * there are no objects to free or the number of freeable items cannot be + * determined, it should return 0. No deadlock checks should be done during the + * count callback - the shrinker relies on aggregating scan counts that couldn't + * be executed due to potential deadlocks to be run at a later call when the + * deadlock condition is no longer pending. * - * The 'gfpmask' refers to the allocation we are currently trying to - * fulfil. + * @scan_objects will only be called if @count_objects returned a non-zero + * value for the number of freeable objects. The callout should scan the cache + * and attempt to free items from the cache. It should then return the number + * of objects freed during the scan, or SHRINK_STOP if progress cannot be made + * due to potential deadlocks. If SHRINK_STOP is returned, then no further + * attempts to call the @scan_objects will be made from the current reclaim + * context. * - * 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. + * @flags determine the shrinker abilities, like numa awareness */ struct shrinker { - int (*shrink)(struct shrinker *, struct shrink_control *sc); + unsigned long (*count_objects)(struct shrinker *, + struct shrink_control *sc); + unsigned long (*scan_objects)(struct shrinker *, + struct shrink_control *sc); + int seeks; /* seeks to recreate an obj */ long batch; /* reclaim batch size, 0 = default */ + unsigned long flags; /* These are for internal use */ struct list_head list; - atomic_long_t nr_in_batch; /* objs pending delete */ + /* objs pending delete, per node */ + atomic_long_t *nr_deferred; }; #define DEFAULT_SEEKS 2 /* A good number if you don't know better. */ -extern void register_shrinker(struct shrinker *); + +/* Flags */ +#define SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE (1 << 0) + +extern int register_shrinker(struct shrinker *); extern void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *); #endif |