[GFS2] Reduce inode size by moving i_alloc out of line

It is possible to reduce the size of GFS2 inodes by taking the i_alloc
structure out of the gfs2_inode. This patch allocates the i_alloc
structure whenever its needed, and frees it afterward. This decreases
the amount of low memory we use at the expense of requiring a memory
allocation for each page or partial page that we write. A quick test
with postmark shows that the overhead is not measurable and I also note
that OCFS2 use the same approach.

In the future I'd like to solve the problem by shrinking down the size
of the members of the i_alloc structure, but for now, this reduces the
immediate problem of using too much low-memory on x86 and doesn't add
too much overhead.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_address.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_address.c
index 37406a379e7a..38dbe99a30ed 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/ops_address.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_address.c
@@ -646,7 +646,6 @@ static int gfs2_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
         if (error)
                 goto out_unlock;
 
-        ip->i_alloc.al_requested = 0;
         if (alloc_required) {
                 al = gfs2_alloc_get(ip);
 
@@ -823,7 +822,7 @@ static int gfs2_write_end(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
         struct gfs2_inode *ip = GFS2_I(inode);
         struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = GFS2_SB(inode);
         struct buffer_head *dibh;
-        struct gfs2_alloc *al = &ip->i_alloc;
+        struct gfs2_alloc *al = ip->i_alloc;
         struct gfs2_dinode *di;
         unsigned int from = pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
         unsigned int to = from + len;
@@ -861,7 +860,7 @@ static int gfs2_write_end(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
         brelse(dibh);
         gfs2_trans_end(sdp);
 failed:
-        if (al->al_requested) {
+        if (al) {
                 gfs2_inplace_release(ip);
                 gfs2_quota_unlock(ip);
                 gfs2_alloc_put(ip);