linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] make mballoc history a config option

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Message-ID: <47A394B3.8090908@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:52:51 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make mballoc history a config option

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
>> It's a bit shocking how much this matters to the size of
>> ext4_mb_release_inode_pa etc; I've not yet found the 
>> reason why.
> 
> Oh, well, duh - its' the big 108 byte allocation context on the
> stack.... and if it's not used it gets optimized away.
> 
> I think it's worth looking at allocating that one.

Ok, hold off on that patch for now, sorry, looking at it more I think it
should be done better.

-Eric
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