ext2: Avoid loading bitmaps for full groups during block allocation
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:55:39 +0000 (13:55 +0200)
committerJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Fri, 21 May 2010 17:30:37 +0000 (19:30 +0200)
There is no point in loading bitmap for groups which are completely full.
This causes noticeable performance problems (and memory pressure) on small
systems with large full filesystem
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=126843108314310&w=2).

Port of the same ext3 patch.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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