btrfs: don't use slab cache for struct btrfs_delalloc_work

Although we prefer to use separate caches for various structs, it seems
better not to do that for struct btrfs_delalloc_work. Objects of this
type are allocated rarely, when transaction commit calls
btrfs_start_delalloc_roots, requesting delayed iputs.

The objects are temporary (with some IO involved) but still allocated
and freed within __start_delalloc_inodes. Memory allocation failure is
handled.

The slab cache is empty most of the time (observed on several systems),
so if we need to allocate a new slab object, the first one has to
allocate a full page. In a potential case of low memory conditions this
might fail with higher probability compared to using the generic slab
caches.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 255d0f966b9f..0214a812fc0e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ static const struct file_operations btrfs_dir_file_operations;
 static struct extent_io_ops btrfs_extent_io_ops;
 
 static struct kmem_cache *btrfs_inode_cachep;
-static struct kmem_cache *btrfs_delalloc_work_cachep;
 struct kmem_cache *btrfs_trans_handle_cachep;
 struct kmem_cache *btrfs_transaction_cachep;
 struct kmem_cache *btrfs_path_cachep;
@@ -9159,8 +9158,6 @@ void btrfs_destroy_cachep(void)
                 kmem_cache_destroy(btrfs_path_cachep);
         if (btrfs_free_space_cachep)
                 kmem_cache_destroy(btrfs_free_space_cachep);
-        if (btrfs_delalloc_work_cachep)
-                kmem_cache_destroy(btrfs_delalloc_work_cachep);
 }
 
 int btrfs_init_cachep(void)
@@ -9195,13 +9192,6 @@ int btrfs_init_cachep(void)
         if (!btrfs_free_space_cachep)
                 goto fail;
 
-        btrfs_delalloc_work_cachep = kmem_cache_create("btrfs_delalloc_work",
-                        sizeof(struct btrfs_delalloc_work), 0,
-                        SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
-                        NULL);
-        if (!btrfs_delalloc_work_cachep)
-                goto fail;
-
         return 0;
 fail:
         btrfs_destroy_cachep();
@@ -9446,7 +9436,7 @@ struct btrfs_delalloc_work *btrfs_alloc_delalloc_work(struct inode *inode,
 {
         struct btrfs_delalloc_work *work;
 
-        work = kmem_cache_zalloc(btrfs_delalloc_work_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
+        work = kmalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_NOFS);
         if (!work)
                 return NULL;
 
@@ -9465,7 +9455,7 @@ struct btrfs_delalloc_work *btrfs_alloc_delalloc_work(struct inode *inode,
 void btrfs_wait_and_free_delalloc_work(struct btrfs_delalloc_work *work)
 {
         wait_for_completion(&work->completion);
-        kmem_cache_free(btrfs_delalloc_work_cachep, work);
+        kfree(work);
 }
 
 /*