Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:51:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:51:16 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-021-198.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.21.198]:46470 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:51:15 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Christoph Hellwig , marcelo@conectiva.com.br Subject: Re: [PATCH] rework inode allocation to allow filesystems more control Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:55:30 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: viro@math.psu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20020911145557.A13949@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20020911145557.A13949@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1035 Lines: 21 On Wednesday 11 September 2002 14:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This patch adds ->alloc_inode and ->destroy_inode super operations to > allow the filesystem control the allocation of struct inode, e.g. to > have it's private inode and the VFS one n the same slab cache. > > This allows to break worst-offenders like NFS out of the big inode union > and make VM balancing better by wasting less ram for inodes. It also > speedups filesystems that don't want to touch that union in struct > inode, like JFS, XFS or FreeVxFS (once switched over). It is a straight > backport from Al's code in 2.5 and has proven stable in Red Hat's > recent beta releases (limbo, null). Al has ACKed my patch submission. How about a credit for the original author/designer? Yes, that was me. -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/