Revert "mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages"

commit 69056ee6a8a3d576ed31e38b3b14c70d6c74edcc upstream.

This reverts commit a76cf1a474d7d ("mm: don't reclaim inodes with many
attached pages").

This change causes serious changes to page cache and inode cache
behaviour and balance, resulting in major performance regressions when
combining worklaods such as large file copies and kernel compiles.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202441

This change is a hack to work around the problems introduced by changing
how agressive shrinkers are on small caches in commit 172b06c3 ("mm:
slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects").  It
creates more problems than it solves, wasn't adequately reviewed or
tested, so it needs to be reverted.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190130041707.27750-2-david@fromorbit.com
Fixes: a76cf1a474d7d ("mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages")
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Wolfgang Walter <linux@stwm.de>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Spock <dairinin@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

fs/inode.c

@@ -730,11 +730,8 @@ static enum lru_status inode_lru_isolate(struct list_head *item,
 		return LRU_REMOVED;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Recently referenced inodes and inodes with many attached pages
-	 * get one more pass.
-	 */
-	if (inode->i_state & I_REFERENCED || inode->i_data.nrpages > 1) {
+	/* recently referenced inodes get one more pass */
+	if (inode->i_state & I_REFERENCED) {
 		inode->i_state &= ~I_REFERENCED;
 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 		return LRU_ROTATE;