git: kernel - Reduce auto maxvnodes calculation
Matthew Dillon
dillon at crater.dragonflybsd.org
Tue May 18 11:43:55 PDT 2021
commit 703335c46ed70823091eb510de46c712fd7a6639
Author: Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>
Date: Tue May 18 11:30:11 2021 -0700
kernel - Reduce auto maxvnodes calculation
* Reduce the default kern.maxvnodes value further. On low-memory systems
reduce the calculation by roughly 40%. On systems with more memory,
reduce the calculation by roughly 60%.
kern.maxvnodes has a large knock-on effect with kernel memory use.
The number of struct vnode, struct vm_object, and various filesystem
structures tend to scale with kern.maxvnodes. These have gotten larger
over the years.
At the same time, block caching is now mostly done at the block-device
level rather than the vnode level, particularly for HAMMER1 and HAMMER2
filesystems. Having a huge kern.maxvnodes setting just isn't necessary.
Even on huge-memory machines, going beyond a few million isn't going to
do a whole lot.
* With these changes, a system with 2G of ram, maxvnodes drops from roughly
70,000 to roughly 40,000. On a system with 64G of ram, maxvnodes drops
from the cap (4M) to around 1.6M.
* This modestly reduces steady-state kernel wired memory use on
systems with modest to high uptimes.
Summary of changes:
sys/kern/vfs_subr.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/703335c46ed70823091eb510de46c712fd7a6639
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