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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/inode.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/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/gfs2/inode.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.c b/fs/gfs2/inode.c index 53bca9978fb5..c84764ad82b3 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c @@ -711,9 +711,10 @@ static int alloc_dinode(struct gfs2_inode *dip, u64 *no_addr, u64 *generation) struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = GFS2_SB(&dip->i_inode); int error; - gfs2_alloc_get(dip); + if (gfs2_alloc_get(dip) == NULL) + return -ENOMEM; - dip->i_alloc.al_requested = RES_DINODE; + dip->i_alloc->al_requested = RES_DINODE; error = gfs2_inplace_reserve(dip); if (error) goto out; @@ -900,7 +901,7 @@ fail_end_trans: gfs2_trans_end(sdp); fail_ipreserv: - if (dip->i_alloc.al_rgd) + if (dip->i_alloc->al_rgd) gfs2_inplace_release(dip); fail_quota_locks: |