[PATCH] Fix mount hash table

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Thu, 7 Feb 2002 03:39:59 +0100


On my 512MB machine with 6 mount points the mount hash table uses 64K.
This patch brings it to a more reasonable size by limiting it to one
page.

Patch against 2.5.4pre1. Please apply.

-Andi

--- linux-2.5.4pre1-work/fs/namespace.c-o Wed Jan 30 22:38:09 2002
+++ linux-2.5.4pre1-work/fs/namespace.c Thu Feb 7 03:35:53 2002
@@ -1048,15 +1048,9 @@
if (!mnt_cache)
panic("Cannot create vfsmount cache");

- mempages >>= (16 - PAGE_SHIFT);
- mempages *= sizeof(struct list_head);
- for (order = 0; ((1UL << order) << PAGE_SHIFT) < mempages; order++)
- ;
-
- do {
- mount_hashtable = (struct list_head *)
- __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order);
- } while (mount_hashtable == NULL && --order >= 0);
+ order = 0;
+ mount_hashtable = (struct list_head *)
+ __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order);

if (!mount_hashtable)
panic("Failed to allocate mount hash table\n");
-
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