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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:09:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Horrible L2 cache effects from kernel compile
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On 3 Mar 2003, 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 ?

2.5.x does that already:

	#define DNAME_INLINE_LEN \
	        (sizeof(struct dentry)-offsetof(struct dentry,d_iname))

with the DNAME_INLINE_LEN_MIN just being exactly what the name says: the 
minimum size.

		Linus

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