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From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	robert.richter@amd.com, oprofile-list@lists.sf.net
Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] fs: shrink struct dentry
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:51:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081201175113.GA16828@totally.trollied.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081201083343.GC2529@wotan.suse.de>

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:33:43AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:

> I then got rid of the d_cookie pointer. This shrinks it to 192 bytes. Rant:
> why was this ever a good idea? The cookie system should increase its hash
> size or use a tree or something if lookups are a problem.

Are you saying you've made this change without even testing its
performance impact?

john

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-01 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-01  8:33 Nick Piggin
2008-12-01 11:09 ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-01 11:26   ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-01 17:51 ` John Levon [this message]
2008-12-01 18:04   ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-01 19:38     ` John Levon
2008-12-02  7:06       ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-02 13:04         ` John Levon
2008-12-02 13:49           ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-02 14:49             ` John Levon
2008-12-02 15:11               ` Nick Piggin

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