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    ext4: limit number of scanned extents in status tree shrinker · dd475925
    Jan Kara authored
    Currently we scan extent status trees of inodes until we reclaim nr_to_scan
    extents. This can however require a lot of scanning when there are lots
    of delayed extents (as those cannot be reclaimed).
    
    Change shrinker to work as shrinkers are supposed to and *scan* only
    nr_to_scan extents regardless of how many extents did we actually
    reclaim. We however need to be careful and avoid scanning each status
    tree from the beginning - that could lead to a situation where we would
    not be able to reclaim anything at all when first nr_to_scan extents in
    the tree are always unreclaimable. We remember with each inode offset
    where we stopped scanning and continue from there when we next come
    across the inode.
    
    Note that we also need to update places calling __es_shrink() manually
    to pass reasonable nr_to_scan to have a chance of reclaiming anything and
    not just 1.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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