mbcache: correctly handle 'e_referenced' bit

mbcache entries have an 'e_referenced' bit which users can set with
mb_cache_entry_touch() to indicate that an entry should be given another
pass through the LRU list before the shrinker can delete it.  However,
mb_cache_shrink() actually would, when seeing an e_referenced entry at
the front of the list (the least-recently used end), place it right at
the front of the list again.  The next iteration would then remove the
entry from the list and delete it.  Consequently, e_referenced had
essentially no effect, so ext2/ext4 xattr blocks would sometimes not be
reused as often as expected.

Fix this by making the shrinker move e_referenced entries to the back of
the list rather than the front.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Eric Biggers 2016-12-03 15:13:15 -05:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 4db0d88e2e
commit 918b7306ed

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@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ static unsigned long mb_cache_shrink(struct mb_cache *cache,
struct mb_cache_entry, e_list);
if (entry->e_referenced) {
entry->e_referenced = 0;
list_move_tail(&cache->c_list, &entry->e_list);
list_move_tail(&entry->e_list, &cache->c_list);
continue;
}
list_del_init(&entry->e_list);