f2fs: introduce dirty list node in inode info
Add a new dirt list node member in inode info for linking the inode to
global dirty list in superblock, instead of old implementation which
allocate slab cache memory as an entry to inode.
It avoids memory pressure due to slab cache allocation, and also makes
codes more clean.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index ee8bcbf..21048ed 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -158,13 +158,7 @@
nid_t ino; /* inode number */
};
-/*
- * for the list of directory inodes or gc inodes.
- * NOTE: there are two slab users for this structure, if we add/modify/delete
- * fields in structure for one of slab users, it may affect fields or size of
- * other one, in this condition, it's better to split both of slab and related
- * data structure.
- */
+/* for the list of inodes to be GCed */
struct inode_entry {
struct list_head list; /* list head */
struct inode *inode; /* vfs inode pointer */
@@ -441,8 +435,8 @@
unsigned int clevel; /* maximum level of given file name */
nid_t i_xattr_nid; /* node id that contains xattrs */
unsigned long long xattr_ver; /* cp version of xattr modification */
- struct inode_entry *dirty_dir; /* the pointer of dirty dir */
+ struct list_head dirty_list; /* linked in global dirty list */
struct list_head inmem_pages; /* inmemory pages managed by f2fs */
struct mutex inmem_lock; /* lock for inmemory pages */