From 6baf77606f1248b80dee408c1de1a02505949893 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Mason Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:47:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c index 0c482e0d7c434..f5e7cae63d80f 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, -- 2.39.5