[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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h
index b4c6adfc6f2..149bb161f4b 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h
+++ b/fs/gfs2/rgrp.h
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ void gfs2_rgrp_repolish_clones(struct gfs2_rgrpd *rgd);
 struct gfs2_alloc *gfs2_alloc_get(struct gfs2_inode *ip);
 static inline void gfs2_alloc_put(struct gfs2_inode *ip)
 {
-	return; /* So we can see where ip->i_alloc is used */
+	BUG_ON(ip->i_alloc == NULL);
+	kfree(ip->i_alloc);
+	ip->i_alloc = NULL;
 }
 
 int gfs2_inplace_reserve_i(struct gfs2_inode *ip,