On 06/18/13 23:50, Dave Chinner wrote:
From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
When we are allocating a new inode, we read the inode cluster off
disk to increment the generation number. We are already using a
random generation number for newly allocated inodes, so if we are not
using the ikeep mode, we can just generate a new generation number
when we initialise the newly allocated inode.
This avoids the need for reading the inode buffer during inode
creation. This will speed up allocation of inodes in cold, partially
allocated clusters as they will no longer need to be read from disk
during allocation. It will also reduce the CPU overhead of inode
allocation by not having the process the buffer read, even on cache
hits.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Looks good.
As a side note, the comment in xfs_inode.h for the i_d:
xfs_icdinode_t i_d; /* most of ondisk inode */
In Linux 3.10, it is no longer just most.
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx>
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