Revert "mm: slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects"

commit a9a238e83fbb0df31c3b9b67003f8f9d1d1b6c96 upstream.

This reverts commit 172b06c3 ("mm: slowly shrink slabs with a
relatively small number of objects").

This change changes the agressiveness of shrinker reclaim, causing small
cache and low priority reclaim to greatly increase scanning pressure on
small caches.  As a result, light memory pressure has a disproportionate
affect on small caches, and causes large caches to be reclaimed much
faster than previously.

As a result, it greatly perturbs the delicate balance of the VFS caches
(dentry/inode vs file page cache) such that the inode/dentry caches are
reclaimed much, much faster than the page cache and this drives us into
several other caching imbalance related problems.

As such, this is a bad change and needs to be reverted.

[ Needs some massaging to retain the later seekless shrinker
  modifications.]

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190130041707.27750-3-david@fromorbit.com


Fixes: 172b06c3 ("mm: slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects")
Signed-off-by: Dave 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>