On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 12:46:22PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Instead of allocating inode records in chunks and keeping a freelist of them > which gets released to the system memory allocator in one go use plain malloc > and free for them. The freelist just means adding a global lock instead > of relying on malloc and free which could be implemented lockless. In > addition smart allocators like tcmalloc have far less overhead than our > chunk and linked list. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Same context as the last patch - seems much better to rely on malloc to get this right. Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
