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    [PATCH] reduced latency in dentry and inode cache shrinking · 23e77b64
    Andrew Morton authored
    Shrinking a huge number of dentries or inodes can hold dcache_lock or
    inode_lock for a long time.  Not only does this hold off preemption -
    holding those locks basically shuts down the whole VFS.
    
    A neat fix for all such caches is to chunk the work up at the
    shrink_slab() level.
    
    I made the chunksize pretty small, for scalability reasons - avoid
    holding the lock for too long so another CPU can come in, acquire it
    and go off to do some work.
    23e77b64
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