On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 02:05:15PM -0800, Aditya Kali wrote:
> Currently ext4_mb_load_buddy is called for every group, irrespective
> of whether the group info is already in memory, while reading
> /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/mb_groups proc file. For the purpose of
> mb_groups proc file, it is unnecessary to load the file group info
> from disk if it was loaded in past. These calls to ext4_mb_load_buddy
> make reading the mb_groups proc file expensive.
> Also, the locks around ext4_get_group_info are not required.
> This patch modifies the code to call ext4_mb_load_buddy only if the
> group info had never been loaded into memory in past. It also removes
> the mb group locking around ext4_get_group_info call.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@xxxxxxxxxx>
I realized that this had dropped through the cracks. Sorry!
I've queued this for the next merge window.
- Ted
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