[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>
This commit is contained in:
Steven Whitehouse
2008-01-10 15:18:55 +00:00
parent ac39aadd04
commit 6dbd822487
12 changed files with 39 additions and 36 deletions
+2 -2
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@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ static int do_strip(struct gfs2_inode *ip, struct buffer_head *dibh,
if (metadata)
revokes = (height) ? sdp->sd_inptrs : sdp->sd_diptrs;
error = gfs2_rindex_hold(sdp, &ip->i_alloc.al_ri_gh);
error = gfs2_rindex_hold(sdp, &ip->i_alloc->al_ri_gh);
if (error)
return error;
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ out_rg_gunlock:
out_rlist:
gfs2_rlist_free(&rlist);
out:
gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&ip->i_alloc.al_ri_gh);
gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&ip->i_alloc->al_ri_gh);
return error;
}