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Commit 889cea43 authored by Andrew Perepechko's avatar Andrew Perepechko Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging: lustre: mdc: excessive memory consumption by the xattr cache



The refill operation of the xattr cache does not know the
reply size in advance, so it makes a guess based on
the maxeasize value returned by the MDS.

In practice, it allocates 16 KiB for the common case and
4 MiB for the large xattr case. However, a typical reply
is just a few hundred bytes.

If we follow the conservative approach, we can prepare a
single memory page for the reply. It is large enough for
any reasonable xattr set and, at the same time, it does
not require multiple page memory reclaim, which can be
costly.

If, for a specific file, the reply is larger than a single
page, the client is prepared to handle that and will fall back
to non-cached xattr code. Indeed, if this happens often and
xattrs are often used to store large values, it makes sense to
disable the xattr cache at all since it wasn't designed for
such [mis]use.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Perepechko <c17827@cray.com>
Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-9417
Reviewed-on: https://review.whamcloud.com/26887


Reviewed-by: default avatarFan Yong <fan.yong@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBen Evans <bevans@cray.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarOleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 6f17a044
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