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Dave Chinner 69056ee6a8 Revert "mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages"
This reverts commit a76cf1a474 ("mm: don't reclaim inodes with many
attached pages").

This change causes serious changes to page cache and inode cache
behaviour and balance, resulting in major performance regressions when
combining worklaods such as large file copies and kernel compiles.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202441

This change is a hack to work around the problems introduced by changing
how agressive shrinkers are on small caches in commit 172b06c32b ("mm:
slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects").  It
creates more problems than it solves, wasn't adequately reviewed or
tested, so it needs to be reverted.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190130041707.27750-2-david@fromorbit.com
Fixes: a76cf1a474 ("mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages")
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Wolfgang Walter <linux@stwm.de>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Spock <dairinin@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-02-12 16:33:18 -08:00
arch s390 update with bug fixes for 5.0-rc6 2019-02-11 10:28:48 -08:00
block for-linus-20190209 2019-02-09 10:26:09 -08:00
certs
crypto
Documentation Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry 2019-02-11 09:10:22 -08:00
drivers Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal 2019-02-11 13:30:50 -08:00
firmware
fs Revert "mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages" 2019-02-12 16:33:18 -08:00
include Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-02-10 09:54:19 -08:00
init
ipc
kernel Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-02-10 09:48:18 -08:00
lib
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samples
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tools tools uapi: fix Alpha support 2019-02-10 19:16:24 -08:00
usr
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2019-02-09 13:43:12 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.0-rc6 2019-02-10 14:42:20 -08:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.