[PATCH 03/12] repair: allocate and free extent records individually

[Mark Tinguely]

On 01/-10/63 13:59, 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.

Looks good. Has been running without issues.

Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely at sgi.com>