Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:50:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:50:47 -0500 Received: from to-wiznet.redhat.com ([216.129.200.2]:46076 "EHLO touchme.toronto.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:50:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:01:12 -0500 From: Benjamin LaHaise To: Alan Cox Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Horrible L2 cache effects from kernel compile Message-ID: <20030303180112.D6915@redhat.com> References: <1046735907.7947.0.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1046735907.7947.0.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:58:27PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 19 On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:58:27PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 19:13, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > dentry itself. Yes, you could make it smaller (you could remove the inline > > string from it, for example, and you could avoid allocating it at > > How about at least making the inline string align to the slab alignment so we > dont waste space ? Also, making the qstr length an unsigned short or u8 would increase the length of the string by 2 or 3 bytes quite for free. -ben -- Junk email? aart@kvack.org - 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/