bcachefs: Leave a buffer in the btree key cache to avoid lock thrashing

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/bcachefs/btree_key_cache.c b/fs/bcachefs/btree_key_cache.c
index 2ad3d27c91e6..2d3c0d45c37f 100644
--- a/fs/bcachefs/btree_key_cache.c
+++ b/fs/bcachefs/btree_key_cache.c
@@ -915,6 +915,14 @@ static unsigned long bch2_btree_key_cache_count(struct shrinker *shrink,
 	long nr = atomic_long_read(&bc->nr_keys) -
 		atomic_long_read(&bc->nr_dirty);
 
+	/*
+	 * Avoid hammering our shrinker too much if it's nearly empty - the
+	 * shrinker code doesn't take into account how big our cache is, if it's
+	 * mostly empty but the system is under memory pressure it causes nasty
+	 * lock contention:
+	 */
+	nr -= 128;
+
 	return max(0L, nr);
 }