1. 06 Jun, 2012 23 commits
  2. 05 Jun, 2012 2 commits
  3. 04 Jun, 2012 12 commits
  4. 03 Jun, 2012 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      vfs: move inode stat information closer together · 2f9d3df8
      Linus Torvalds authored
      The comment above it says "Stat data, not accessed from path walking",
      but in fact some of inode fields we use for the common stat data was way
      down at the end of the inode, causing unnecessary cache misses for the
      common stat operations.
      
      The inode structure is pretty big, and this can change padding depending
      on field width, but at least on the common 64-bit configurations this
      doesn't change the size.  Some of our inode layout has historically been
      to tro to avoid unnecessary padding fields, but cache locality is at
      least as important for layout, if not more.
      
      Noticed by looking at kernel profiles, and noticing that the "i_blkbits"
      access stood out like a sore thumb.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2f9d3df8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 3.5-rc1 · f8f5701b
      Linus Torvalds authored
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm · 912afc36
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull device-mapper updates from Alasdair G Kergon:
       "Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances
        and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
        access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use."
      
      * tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm:
        dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata
        dm thin: use slab mempools
        dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init
        dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg
        dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath
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