tree e8c16516bba080b4e40eccebb5a3ea5fb25cf5fd
parent c4e35e07af162ea4d642b1c6ffacbb63c3ed1804
author Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> 1202624013 -0500
committer Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> 1202624013 -0500

ext4: allocate struct ext4_allocation_context from a kmem cache

struct ext4_allocation_context is rather large, and this bloats
the stack of many functions which use it.  Allocating it from
a named slab cache will alleviate this.

For example, with this change (on top of the noinline patch sent earlier):

-ext4_mb_new_blocks		200
+ext4_mb_new_blocks		 40

-ext4_mb_free_blocks		344
+ext4_mb_free_blocks		168

-ext4_mb_release_inode_pa	216
+ext4_mb_release_inode_pa	 40

-ext4_mb_release_group_pa	192
+ext4_mb_release_group_pa	 24

Most of these stack-allocated structs are actually used only for
mballoc history; and in those cases often a smaller struct would do.
So changing that may be another way around it, at least for those
functions, if preferred.  For now, in those cases where the ac
is only for history, an allocation failure simply skips the history
recording, and does not cause any other failures.


Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>