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Commit 39b0f1e9 authored by Bob Peterson's avatar Bob Peterson
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GFS2: Don't brelse rgrp buffer_heads every allocation



This patch allows the block allocation code to retain the buffers
for the resource groups so they don't need to be re-read from buffer
cache with every request. This is a performance improvement that's
especially noticeable when resource groups are very large. For
example, with 2GB resource groups and 4K blocks, there can be 33
blocks for every resource group. This patch allows those 33 buffers
to be kept around and not read in and thrown away with every
operation. The buffers are released when the resource group is
either synced or invalidated.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBenjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
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