On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 12:55:14AM +0200, Andreas Dilger wrote: > It would be possible to optimize mb_free_blocks() by having it > clear a whole word at a time instead of a series if bits. It looks like we're doing this already in mb_test_and_clear_bits(), aren't we? > I thought that was done already, but it doesn't appear to be the case. > Also, it isn't clear that the bit "normalization" is needed anymore. > This was done back in the aniceint times when the buddy bitmaps were stored on disk instead of being regenerated only at mount time. I'm not sure what you mean by this; the only reference I can find normalization is with normalizing requests? - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
