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authorBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>2012-11-06 09:50:47 -0500
committerBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>2012-11-08 15:34:59 -0600
commit579b62faa5fb16ffeeb88cda5e2c4e95730881af (patch)
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xfs: add background scanning to clear eofblocks inodes
Create a new mount workqueue and delayed_work to enable background scanning and freeing of eofblocks inodes. The scanner kicks in once speculative preallocation occurs and stops requeueing itself when no eofblocks inodes exist. The scan interval is based on the new 'speculative_prealloc_lifetime' tunable (default to 5m). The background scanner performs unfiltered, best effort scans (which skips inodes under lock contention or with a dirty cache mapping). Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.c
index ee2d2adaa438..2801b5ce6cdb 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.c
@@ -202,6 +202,15 @@ static ctl_table xfs_table[] = {
.extra1 = &xfs_params.fstrm_timer.min,
.extra2 = &xfs_params.fstrm_timer.max,
},
+ {
+ .procname = "speculative_prealloc_lifetime",
+ .data = &xfs_params.eofb_timer.val,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = &xfs_params.eofb_timer.min,
+ .extra2 = &xfs_params.eofb_timer.max,
+ },
/* please keep this the last entry */
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
{