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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Dump the inode structure (for debugging purposes only)
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 14:09:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090521200942.GA5110@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242936063-31689-6-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 04:01:03PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> This is not intended for merging; but it's useful for determining how
> much varous fields in the struct inode space, and whether there is any
> padding leading to waste, especially on a 64-bit platforms.

Why not just use acme's pahole?

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-21 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-21 20:00 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Put struct inode on a diet Theodore Ts'o
2009-05-21 20:00 ` [PATCH 1/5] fs: i_flags and i_state in struct inode only need to be unsigned short Theodore Ts'o
2009-05-21 20:01   ` [PATCH 2/5] fs: Remove i_cindex from struct inode Theodore Ts'o
2009-05-21 20:01     ` [PATCH 3/5] fs: Slim down inode by only using an unsigned int for i_dnotify_mask Theodore Ts'o
2009-05-21 20:01       ` [PATCH 4/5] fs: Rearrange inode structure elements to avoid waste due to padding Theodore Ts'o
2009-05-21 20:01         ` [PATCH 5/5] Dump the inode structure (for debugging purposes only) Theodore Ts'o
2009-05-21 20:09           ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2009-05-21 20:28             ` Theodore Tso
2009-05-21 20:30     ` [PATCH 2/5] fs: Remove i_cindex from struct inode Stefan Richter

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