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Subject: [PATCH v2 16/31] NFSD: Fix the filecache LRU shrinker
From:   Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
To:     linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     david@fromorbit.com, jlayton@redhat.com, tgraf@suug.ch
Date:   Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:07:30 -0400
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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@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
---
 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);
 }