[LU-3970] Add procfs interface for clearing lustre caches in parallel

Related — Tue, 9 Feb 2016 15:47:19 +0000

Cray experienced slowness clearing the lustre caches after job termination. This slowness is a result of clearing the caches for each namespace in series. Lustre should provide a high-level procfs interface which clears lustre caches across namespaces in parallel and returns when all caches are cleared.

The interface should be at /proc/fs/lustre/ldlm/drop_caches, and when written to, it must clear all lustre caches in parallel and return when finished.

It must have the same effect as the following, but in parallel:

for LRU in $(ls /proc/fs/lustre/ldlm/namespaces/*osc*/lru_size); do
    echo clear > $LRU
done

for LRU in $(ls /proc/fs/lustre/ldlm/namespaces/*mdc*/lru_size); do
    echo clear > $LRU
done

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[LU-3970] Add procfs interface for clearing lustre caches in parallel