From: Chris Mason Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:47:50 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Btrfs: try to free metadata pages when we free btree blocks X-Git-Tag: v2.6.30-rc1~222^2~20 X-Git-Url: http://git.samba.org/samba.git/?p=sfrench%2Fcifs-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d57e62b89796f751c9422801cbcd407a9f8dcdc4 Btrfs: try to free metadata pages when we free btree blocks COW means we cycle though blocks fairly quickly, and once we free an extent on disk, it doesn't make much sense to keep the pages around. This commit tries to immediately free the page when we free the extent, which lowers our memory footprint significantly. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason --- diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c index 0c482e0d7c43..f5e7cae63d80 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c @@ -2384,6 +2384,10 @@ static int __free_extent(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, if (owner_objectid >= BTRFS_FIRST_FREE_OBJECTID) { ret = btrfs_del_csums(trans, root, bytenr, num_bytes); BUG_ON(ret); + } else { + invalidate_mapping_pages(info->btree_inode->i_mapping, + bytenr >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, + (bytenr + num_bytes - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT); } ret = update_block_group(trans, root, bytenr, num_bytes, 0,