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Andrew Morton authored
With large highmem machines and many small cached files it is possible to encounter ZONE_NORMAL allocation failures. This can be demonstrated with a large number of one-byte files on a 7G machine. All lowmem is filled with icache and all those inodes have a small amount of highmem pagecache which makes them unfreeable. The patch strips the pagecache from inodes as they come off the tail of the inode_unused list. I play tricks in there peeking at the head of the inode_unused list to pick up the inode again after running iput(). The alternatives seemed to involve more widespread changes. Or running invalidate_inode_pages() under inode_lock which would be a bad thing from a scheduling latency and lock contention point of view.
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