Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:27:21 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [patch 18/29] VFS: increase pseudo-filesystem block size to PAGE_SIZE |
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2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
commit 3971e1a917548977cff71418a7c3575ffbc9571f upstream
This commit:
commit ba52de123d454b57369f291348266d86f4b35070 Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Date: Wed Sep 27 01:50:49 2006 -0700
[PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure
caused the block size used by pseudo-filesystems to decrease from PAGE_SIZE to 1024 leading to a doubling of the number of context switches during a kernbench run.
Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <Alex.Nixon@citrix.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- fs/libfs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/libfs.c +++ b/fs/libfs.c @@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ int get_sb_pseudo(struct file_system_typ s->s_flags = MS_NOUSER; s->s_maxbytes = ~0ULL; - s->s_blocksize = 1024; - s->s_blocksize_bits = 10; + s->s_blocksize = PAGE_SIZE; + s->s_blocksize_bits = PAGE_SHIFT; s->s_magic = magic; s->s_op = ops ? ops : &simple_super_operations; s->s_time_gran = 1; --
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