1. 28 Jul, 2010 1 commit
    • Steven Whitehouse's avatar
      GFS2: Use kmalloc when possible for ->readdir() · d2a97a4e
      Steven Whitehouse authored
      If we don't need a huge amount of memory in ->readdir() then
      we can use kmalloc rather than vmalloc to allocate it. This
      should cut down on the greater overheads associated with
      vmalloc for smaller directories.
      
      We may be able to eliminate vmalloc entirely at some stage,
      but this is easy to do right away.
      
      Also using GFP_NOFS to avoid any issues wrt to deleting inodes
      while under a glock, and suggestion from Linus to factor out
      the alloc/dealloc.
      
      I've given this a test with a variety of different sized
      directories and it seems to work ok.
      
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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