GFS2: Use kmalloc when possible for ->readdir()
authorSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:56:23 +0000 (17:56 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:10:03 +0000 (11:10 -0700)
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: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/gfs2/dir.c

index 26ca3361a8bcc3525758ed00c6186fb62494a6e3..6b48d7c268b24b65fae281e606fa32080490cf78 100644 (file)
@@ -1231,6 +1231,25 @@ static int do_filldir_main(struct gfs2_inode *dip, u64 *offset,
        return 0;
 }
 
+static void *gfs2_alloc_sort_buffer(unsigned size)
+{
+       void *ptr = NULL;
+
+       if (size < KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
+               ptr = kmalloc(size, GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOWARN);
+       if (!ptr)
+               ptr = __vmalloc(size, GFP_NOFS, PAGE_KERNEL);
+       return ptr;
+}
+
+static void gfs2_free_sort_buffer(void *ptr)
+{
+       if (is_vmalloc_addr(ptr))
+               vfree(ptr);
+       else
+               kfree(ptr);
+}
+
 static int gfs2_dir_read_leaf(struct inode *inode, u64 *offset, void *opaque,
                              filldir_t filldir, int *copied, unsigned *depth,
                              u64 leaf_no)
@@ -1271,7 +1290,7 @@ static int gfs2_dir_read_leaf(struct inode *inode, u64 *offset, void *opaque,
         * 99 is the maximum number of entries that can fit in a single
         * leaf block.
         */
-       larr = vmalloc((leaves + entries + 99) * sizeof(void *));
+       larr = gfs2_alloc_sort_buffer((leaves + entries + 99) * sizeof(void *));
        if (!larr)
                goto out;
        darr = (const struct gfs2_dirent **)(larr + leaves);
@@ -1282,7 +1301,7 @@ static int gfs2_dir_read_leaf(struct inode *inode, u64 *offset, void *opaque,
        do {
                error = get_leaf(ip, lfn, &bh);
                if (error)
-                       goto out_kfree;
+                       goto out_free;
                lf = (struct gfs2_leaf *)bh->b_data;
                lfn = be64_to_cpu(lf->lf_next);
                if (lf->lf_entries) {
@@ -1291,7 +1310,7 @@ static int gfs2_dir_read_leaf(struct inode *inode, u64 *offset, void *opaque,
                                                gfs2_dirent_gather, NULL, &g);
                        error = PTR_ERR(dent);
                        if (IS_ERR(dent))
-                               goto out_kfree;
+                               goto out_free;
                        if (entries2 != g.offset) {
                                fs_warn(sdp, "Number of entries corrupt in dir "
                                                "leaf %llu, entries2 (%u) != "
@@ -1300,7 +1319,7 @@ static int gfs2_dir_read_leaf(struct inode *inode, u64 *offset, void *opaque,
                                        entries2, g.offset);
                                        
                                error = -EIO;
-                               goto out_kfree;
+                               goto out_free;
                        }
                        error = 0;
                        larr[leaf++] = bh;
@@ -1312,10 +1331,10 @@ static int gfs2_dir_read_leaf(struct inode *inode, u64 *offset, void *opaque,
        BUG_ON(entries2 != entries);
        error = do_filldir_main(ip, offset, opaque, filldir, darr,
                                entries, copied);
-out_kfree:
+out_free:
        for(i = 0; i < leaf; i++)
                brelse(larr[i]);
-       vfree(larr);
+       gfs2_free_sort_buffer(larr);
 out:
        return error;
 }