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| author |   Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2008-01-10 15:18:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2008-01-25 08:18:25 +0000 |
| commit | 6dbd822487d0a9f14432cb4680415b80656b63a2 (patch) | |
| tree | f0391d598c27cd7c39c67cfa13799a784f4c389a /fs/gfs2/dir.c | |
| parent | [GFS2] Fix assert in log code (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-6dbd822487d0a9f14432cb4680415b80656b63a2.tar.xz linux-dev-6dbd822487d0a9f14432cb4680415b80656b63a2.zip | |
[GFS2] Reduce inode size by moving i_alloc out of line
It is possible to reduce the size of GFS2 inodes by taking the i_alloc
structure out of the gfs2_inode. This patch allocates the i_alloc
structure whenever its needed, and frees it afterward. This decreases
the amount of low memory we use at the expense of requiring a memory
allocation for each page or partial page that we write. A quick test
with postmark shows that the overhead is not measurable and I also note
that OCFS2 use the same approach.
In the future I'd like to solve the problem by shrinking down the size
of the members of the i_alloc structure, but for now, this reduces the
immediate problem of using too much low-memory on x86 and doesn't add
too much overhead.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/gfs2/dir.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/gfs2/dir.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/dir.c b/fs/gfs2/dir.c index 9949bb746a52..57e2ed932adc 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/dir.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/dir.c @@ -1876,7 +1876,7 @@ static int leaf_dealloc(struct gfs2_inode *dip, u32 index, u32 len, if (error) goto out; - error = gfs2_rindex_hold(sdp, &dip->i_alloc.al_ri_gh); + error = gfs2_rindex_hold(sdp, &dip->i_alloc->al_ri_gh); if (error) goto out_qs; @@ -1949,7 +1949,7 @@ out_rg_gunlock: gfs2_glock_dq_m(rlist.rl_rgrps, rlist.rl_ghs); out_rlist: gfs2_rlist_free(&rlist); - gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&dip->i_alloc.al_ri_gh); + gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&dip->i_alloc->al_ri_gh); out_qs: gfs2_quota_unhold(dip); out: |