Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 1 author, 2016-08-15
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[RFC PATCH 12/16] DM: release unneeded buffer as soon as possible.

From: Ram Pai <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-15 17:37:58
Also in: dm-devel, lkml
Subsystem: device-mapper (lvm), the rest · Maintainers: Alasdair Kergon, Mike Snitzer, Mikulas Patocka, Benjamin Marzinski, Linus Torvalds

Done to conserve as much free space as possible.  Waiting to release till the
bio is done will unneccesarily hog up memory.

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <redacted>
---
 drivers/md/dm-inplace-compress.c |   14 +++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-inplace-compress.c b/drivers/md/dm-inplace-compress.c
index bc1cf70..b1c3e5f 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-inplace-compress.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-inplace-compress.c
@@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ static struct dm_icomp_io_range *dm_icomp_create_io_read_range(
 	io->comp_kmap = (segments == 1);
 	/* note down the requested length for decompress buffer.
 	 * but dont allocate it yet.
-	 /
+	 */
 	io->decomp_req_len = decomp_len;
 	return io;
 }
@@ -1375,8 +1375,13 @@ static int dm_icomp_handle_write_modify(struct dm_icomp_io_range *io,
 	}
 
 	dm_icomp_get_req(req);
-	if (ret == 1)
+
+	if (ret == 1) {
 		io->io_req.mem.ptr.addr = io->decomp_data + (offset << 9);
+		dm_icomp_release_comp_buffer(io);
+	} else
+		dm_icomp_release_decomp_buffer(io);
+
 	io->io_region.count = comp_len >> 9;
 	io->io_region.sector = start + req->info->data_start;
 
@@ -1443,8 +1448,11 @@ static void dm_icomp_handle_write_comp(struct dm_icomp_req *req)
 	io->io_region.sector = req->bio->bi_iter.bi_sector +
 			 req->info->data_start;
 
-	if (ret == 1)
+	if (ret == 1) {
 		io->io_req.mem.ptr.addr = io->decomp_data;
+		dm_icomp_release_comp_buffer(io);
+	} else
+		dm_icomp_release_decomp_buffer(io);
 
 	io->io_region.count = comp_len >> 9;
 	io->io_req.bi_rw = req->bio->bi_rw;
-- 
1.7.1
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