session->s_state = CEPH_MDS_SESSION_RECONNECTING;
        session->s_seq = 0;
 
-       ceph_con_close(&session->s_con);
-       ceph_con_open(&session->s_con,
-                     CEPH_ENTITY_TYPE_MDS, mds,
-                     ceph_mdsmap_get_addr(mdsc->mdsmap, mds));
-
-       /* replay unsafe requests */
-       replay_unsafe_requests(mdsc, session);
-
-       down_read(&mdsc->snap_rwsem);
-
        dout("session %p state %s\n", session,
             session_state_name(session->s_state));
 
        discard_cap_releases(mdsc, session);
        spin_unlock(&session->s_cap_lock);
 
+       /* trim unused caps to reduce MDS's cache rejoin time */
+       shrink_dcache_parent(mdsc->fsc->sb->s_root);
+
+       ceph_con_close(&session->s_con);
+       ceph_con_open(&session->s_con,
+                     CEPH_ENTITY_TYPE_MDS, mds,
+                     ceph_mdsmap_get_addr(mdsc->mdsmap, mds));
+
+       /* replay unsafe requests */
+       replay_unsafe_requests(mdsc, session);
+
+       down_read(&mdsc->snap_rwsem);
+
        /* traverse this session's caps */
        s_nr_caps = session->s_nr_caps;
        err = ceph_pagelist_encode_32(pagelist, s_nr_caps);