[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, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/main.c b/fs/gfs2/main.c
index 653fd5a..88686fc 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/main.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/main.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ static void gfs2_init_inode_once(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *foo)
 	inode_init_once(&ip->i_inode);
 	spin_lock_init(&ip->i_spin);
 	init_rwsem(&ip->i_rw_mutex);
+	ip->i_alloc = NULL;
 }
 
 static void gfs2_init_glock_once(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *foo)