From 6dbd822487d0a9f14432cb4680415b80656b63a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:18:55 +0000 Subject: [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 --- fs/gfs2/eattr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/gfs2/eattr.c') diff --git a/fs/gfs2/eattr.c b/fs/gfs2/eattr.c index 2a7435b5c4d..bee99704ea1 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/eattr.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/eattr.c @@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@ out: static int ea_dealloc_block(struct gfs2_inode *ip) { struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = GFS2_SB(&ip->i_inode); - struct gfs2_alloc *al = &ip->i_alloc; + struct gfs2_alloc *al = ip->i_alloc; struct gfs2_rgrpd *rgd; struct buffer_head *dibh; int error; -- cgit v1.2.3