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Commit 089ceecc authored by Eric Sandeen's avatar Eric Sandeen Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: mark several more functions in mballoc.c as noinline



Ted noticed a stack-deep callchain through
writepages->ext4_mb_regular_allocator->ext4_mb_init_cache->submit_bh ...

With all the static functions in mballoc.c, gcc helpfully
inlines for us, and we get something like this:

ext4_mb_regular_allocator	(232 bytes stack)
	ext4_mb_init_cache	(232 bytes stack)
		submit_bh	(starts 464 deeper)

the 2 ext4 functions here get several others inlined; by telling
gcc not to inline them, we can save stack space for when we
head off into submit_bh land and associated block layer callchains.
The following noinlined functions are only called once, so this
won't impact any other callchains:

ext4_mb_regular_allocator 			(104) (was 232)
	ext4_mb_find_by_goal			 (56) (noinlined)
	ext4_mb_init_group			 (24) (noinlined)
		ext4_mb_init_cache		(136) (was 232)
			ext4_mb_generate_buddy	 (88) (noinlined)
			ext4_mb_generate_from_pa (40) (noinlined)
			submit_bh
	ext4_mb_simple_scan_group		 (24) (noinlined)
	ext4_mb_scan_aligned			 (56) (noinlined)
	ext4_mb_complex_scan_group		 (40) (noinlined)
	ext4_mb_try_best_found			 (24) (noinlined)

now when we head off into submit_bh() we're only 264 bytes deeper
in stack than when we entered ext4_mb_regular_allocator()
(vs. 464 bytes before).  Every 200 bytes helps.  :)

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
parent f4a01017
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