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ext3: Avoid loading bitmaps for full groups during block allocation
authorFrans van de Wiel <fvdw@fvdw.eu>
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:29:34 +0000 (19:29 +0100)
committerJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Fri, 21 May 2010 17:30:36 +0000 (19:30 +0200)
commit8cef107a1d890ff76c85d665083ff3562be01d32
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parent70ca0a42fe1702ac0784386c44b05d18ee5f1f9ecommit | diff
ext3: Avoid loading bitmaps for full groups during block allocation

There is no point in loading bitmap for groups which are completely full.
This causes noticeable performance problems (and memory pressure) on small
systems with large full filesystem
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=126843108314310&w=2).

Jan Kara: Added a comment and changed check to use cpu-endian value.

Signed-off-by: "Frans van de Wiel" <fvdw@fvdw.eu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
fs/ext3/balloc.c diff | blob | history
Full containers within linux kernel