[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>
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/eattr.c b/fs/gfs2/eattr.c
index 2a7435b..bee9970 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/eattr.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/eattr.c
@@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@
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;
