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Commit 4ddfef7b authored by Eric Sandeen's avatar Eric Sandeen Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: reduce mballoc stack usage with noinline_for_stack



mballoc.c is a whole lot of static functions, which gcc seems to
really like to inline.

With the changes below, on x86, I can at least get from:

432 ext4_mb_new_blocks
240 ext4_mb_free_blocks
208 ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations
188 ext4_mb_seq_groups_show
164 ext4_mb_init_cache
152 ext4_mb_release_inode_pa
136 ext4_mb_seq_history_show
...

to

220 ext4_mb_free_blocks
188 ext4_mb_seq_groups_show
176 ext4_mb_regular_allocator
164 ext4_mb_init_cache
156 ext4_mb_new_blocks
152 ext4_mb_release_inode_pa
136 ext4_mb_seq_history_show
124 ext4_mb_release_group_pa
...

which still has some big functions in there, but not 432 bytes!

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 5cdd7b2d
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