ext4: address scalability issue by removing extent cache statistics

Andi Kleen and Tim Chen have reported that under certain circumstances
the extent cache statistics are causing scalability problems due to
cache line bounces.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index ab2594a30f86..0e01e90add8b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1203,9 +1203,6 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
         unsigned long s_ext_blocks;
         unsigned long s_ext_extents;
 #endif
-        /* ext4 extent cache stats */
-        unsigned long extent_cache_hits;
-        unsigned long extent_cache_misses;
 
         /* for buddy allocator */
         struct ext4_group_info ***s_group_info;