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| author | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2008-01-10 16:18:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2008-01-25 09:18:25 +0100 |
| commit | 6dbd822487d0a9f14432cb4680415b80656b63a2 (patch) | |
| tree | f0391d598c27cd7c39c67cfa13799a784f4c389a /fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c | |
| parent | [GFS2] Fix assert in log code (diff) | |
| download | linux-6dbd822487d0a9f14432cb4680415b80656b63a2.tar.xz linux-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/ops_inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c index 8386ab323e33..9f71372c1757 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static int gfs2_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, inode = gfs2_createi(ghs, &dentry->d_name, S_IFREG | mode, 0); if (!IS_ERR(inode)) { gfs2_trans_end(sdp); - if (dip->i_alloc.al_rgd) + if (dip->i_alloc->al_rgd) gfs2_inplace_release(dip); gfs2_quota_unlock(dip); gfs2_alloc_put(dip); @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ static int gfs2_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, } gfs2_trans_end(sdp); - if (dip->i_alloc.al_rgd) + if (dip->i_alloc->al_rgd) gfs2_inplace_release(dip); gfs2_quota_unlock(dip); gfs2_alloc_put(dip); @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ static int gfs2_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode) gfs2_assert_withdraw(sdp, !error); /* dip already pinned */ gfs2_trans_end(sdp); - if (dip->i_alloc.al_rgd) + if (dip->i_alloc->al_rgd) gfs2_inplace_release(dip); gfs2_quota_unlock(dip); gfs2_alloc_put(dip); @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ static int gfs2_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode, } gfs2_trans_end(sdp); - if (dip->i_alloc.al_rgd) + if (dip->i_alloc->al_rgd) gfs2_inplace_release(dip); gfs2_quota_unlock(dip); gfs2_alloc_put(dip); |