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From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@openss7.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@thunk.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/8] Inode diet v2
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:12:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060621101230.A20623@openss7.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150906010.3057.45.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>; from arjan@infradead.org on Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 06:06:50PM +0200

Arjan,

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> for the inode slab it would very much make sense to tell the slab
> allocator to not do any kind of cacheline alignment at all, just because
> of the wasted space...

As the objects are an order of magnitude larger than the L1 cache slot,
it is fitting an integer multiple into a slab that is the limiting factor,
not really cacheline alignment.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-21 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-21 12:51 [RFC] [PATCH 0/8] Inode diet v2 Theodore Tso
2006-06-21 12:51 ` [RFC] [PATCH 1/8] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private Theodore Tso
2006-06-21 13:23   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-21 14:44   ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-21 15:37     ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-21 12:51 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/8] inode-diet: Move i_pipe into a union Theodore Tso
2006-06-21 12:51 ` [RFC] [PATCH 3/8] inode-diet: Move i_bdev " Theodore Tso
2006-06-21 12:51 ` [RFC] [PATCH 4/8] inode-diet: Move i_cdev " Theodore Tso
2006-06-21 12:51 ` [RFC] [PATCH 5/8] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize and use a per-superblock default Theodore Tso
2006-06-21 12:51 ` [RFC] [PATCH 6/8] inode-diet: Move i_cindex from struct inode to struct file Theodore Tso
2006-06-21 12:51 ` [RFC] [PATCH 7/8] inode-diet: Use a union for i_blocks and i_size, i_rdev and i_devices Theodore Tso
2006-06-21 12:51 ` [RFC] [PATCH 8/8] inode-diet: Fix size of i_blkbits, i_version, and i_dnotify_mask Theodore Tso
     [not found]   ` <200606212335.00176.arnd@arndb.de>
2006-06-22  3:11     ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-21 14:42 ` [RFC] [PATCH 0/8] Inode diet v2 Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-21 15:31   ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-21 16:06   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-21 16:12     ` Brian F. G. Bidulock [this message]
2006-06-21 16:48   ` Theodore Tso

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