xfs: Fix overallocation in xfs_buf_allocate_memory()
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:32:26 +0000 (00:32 +0200)
committerBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:20:36 +0000 (14:20 -0500)
Commit de1cbee which removed b_file_offset in favor of b_bn introduced a bug
causing xfs_buf_allocate_memory() to overestimate the number of necessary
pages. The problem is that xfs_buf_alloc() sets b_bn to -1 and thus effectively
every buffer is straddling a page boundary which causes
xfs_buf_allocate_memory() to allocate two pages and use vmalloc() for access
which is unnecessary.

Dave says xfs_buf_alloc() doesn't need to set b_bn to -1 anymore since the
buffer is inserted into the cache only after being fully initialized now.
So just make xfs_buf_alloc() fill in proper block number from the beginning.

CC: David Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c

index 172d3cc8f8cb8ad6d588fea95819ecfded627167..a4beb421018a03aa84d0cb807d4a71b1db8f927b 100644 (file)
@@ -201,14 +201,7 @@ xfs_buf_alloc(
        bp->b_length = numblks;
        bp->b_io_length = numblks;
        bp->b_flags = flags;
-
-       /*
-        * We do not set the block number here in the buffer because we have not
-        * finished initialising the buffer. We insert the buffer into the cache
-        * in this state, so this ensures that we are unable to do IO on a
-        * buffer that hasn't been fully initialised.
-        */
-       bp->b_bn = XFS_BUF_DADDR_NULL;
+       bp->b_bn = blkno;
        atomic_set(&bp->b_pin_count, 0);
        init_waitqueue_head(&bp->b_waiters);
 
@@ -567,11 +560,6 @@ xfs_buf_get(
        if (bp != new_bp)
                xfs_buf_free(new_bp);
 
-       /*
-        * Now we have a workable buffer, fill in the block number so
-        * that we can do IO on it.
-        */
-       bp->b_bn = blkno;
        bp->b_io_length = bp->b_length;
 
 found:
@@ -772,7 +760,7 @@ xfs_buf_get_uncached(
        int                     error, i;
        xfs_buf_t               *bp;
 
-       bp = xfs_buf_alloc(target, 0, numblks, 0);
+       bp = xfs_buf_alloc(target, XFS_BUF_DADDR_NULL, numblks, 0);
        if (unlikely(bp == NULL))
                goto fail;