[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 02/18] ocfs2_dlm: Creates slabcaches for the lockres' and the locks

[Joel Becker]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:20:46PM -0800, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> This patch makes the o2dlm allocate memory for lockres, lockname and lock
> structures from slabcaches rather than kmalloc. This allows us to not only
> make these allocs more efficient but also allows us to track the memory being
> consumed by these structures.
> 
...
> +/* create/destroy slab caches */
> +int dlm_init_lockres_cache(void);
> +void dlm_destroy_lockres_cache(void);
> +
> +int dlm_init_lockname_cache(void);
> +void dlm_destroy_lockname_cache(void);

	Why not have one dlm_init_master_caches()?  These two are in the
same file.

> -	lock = kzalloc(sizeof(*lock), GFP_NOFS);
> +	lock = (struct dlm_lock *) kmem_cache_alloc(dlm_lock_cache, GFP_NOFS);
>  	if (!lock)
>  		return NULL;
> +	memset(lock, 0, sizeof(struct dlm_lock));

	Probably want to use kmem_cache_zalloc().

Joel

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