On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 07:21:29PM +0800, Yongqiang Yang wrote:
> transaction_t is 136 byes under 32-bit systems. If we allocate
> it from general cache, it comsumes 256 bytes. So let jbd2 allocate
> it from special cache to reduce memory consumption.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks, applied with a modified description:
jbd2: allocate transaction from separate slab cache
There is normally only a handful of these active at any one time, but
putting them in a separate slab cache makes debugging memory
corruption problems easier. Manish Katiyar also wanted this make it
easier to test memory failure scenarios in the jbd2 layer.
- Ted
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