From: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] repair: don't cache large blkmap allocations
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:57:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318499877.3172.12.camel@doink> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318208915-14975-5-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 12:08 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> We currently use thread local storage for storing blkmap allocations
> from one inode to another as a way of reducing the number of short
> term allocations we do. However, the stored allocations can only
> ever grow, so once we've done a large allocation we never free than
> memory even if we never need that much memory again. This can occur
> if we have corrupted extent counts in inodes, and can greatly
> increase the memory footprint of the repair process.
>
> Hence if the cached blkmap array id greater than a reasonable number
> of extents (say 100,000), then don't store the blkmap in TLS and
> instead free it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-10 1:08 [PATCH 0/5, v3] repair: sector size and blkmap fixes Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 1:08 ` [PATCH 1/5] repair: handle repair of image files on large sector size filesystems Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 14:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-13 9:57 ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10 1:08 ` [PATCH 2/5] repair: fix a valgrind reported error on i686 Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 14:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-13 9:57 ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10 1:08 ` [PATCH 3/5] repair: handle memory allocation failure from blkmap_grow Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 14:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-13 9:57 ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10 1:08 ` [PATCH 4/5] repair: don't cache large blkmap allocations Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 14:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-13 9:57 ` Alex Elder [this message]
2011-10-10 1:08 ` [PATCH 5/5] repair: prevent blkmap extent count overflows Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 14:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-13 9:58 ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10 14:18 ` [PATCH 0/5, v3] repair: sector size and blkmap fixes Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-10 23:12 ` Dave Chinner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-09 23:11 [PATCH 0/5, v2] " Dave Chinner
2011-10-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 4/5] repair: don't cache large blkmap allocations Dave Chinner
2011-10-09 23:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-10 0:14 ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-10 13:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
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