From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 16 May 2008 03:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m4GAeYCt012915 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 03:40:38 -0700 Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 06:41:21 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix inode list allocation size in writeback. Message-ID: <20080516104121.GA28064@infradead.org> References: <20080516100657.GV103491721@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080516100657.GV103491721@sgi.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: David Chinner Cc: xfs-dev , xfs-oss On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 08:06:57PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > We only need to allocate space for the number of inodes in > the cluster when writing back inodes, not every byte in the > inode cluster. This reduces the amount of memory needing to > be allocated to 256 bytes instead of 64k. > > Somebody pass me the brown paper bag, please. Looks good, and I'll happily pass on my brown paper bag :)