From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pekka Enberg Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] dentries: Add constructor Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:50:33 +0300 Message-ID: <48BAAFB9.4050302@cs.helsinki.fi> References: <20080825212035.861870487@quilx.com> <20080825212053.500920055@quilx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Alexander Viro , Christoph Hellwig , Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , andi@firstfloor.org, Rik van Riel , mpm@selenic.com, Dave Chinner To: Christoph Lameter Return-path: Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:38072 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752858AbYHaOxy (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:53:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080825212053.500920055@quilx.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Christoph Lameter wrote: > In order to support defragmentation on the dentry cache we need to have > a determined object state at all times. Without a constructor the object > would have a random state after allocation. > > So provide a constructor. Applied, thanks!