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    ext4: Add new abstraction ext4_map_blocks() underneath ext4_get_blocks() · e35fd660
    Theodore Ts'o authored
    
    
    Jack up ext4_get_blocks() and add a new function, ext4_map_blocks()
    which uses a much smaller structure, struct ext4_map_blocks which is
    20 bytes, as opposed to a struct buffer_head, which nearly 5 times
    bigger on an x86_64 machine.  By switching things to use
    ext4_map_blocks(), we can save stack space by using ext4_map_blocks()
    since we can avoid allocating a struct buffer_head on the stack.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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