From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263591AbUEHKcZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2004 06:32:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263962AbUEHKcZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2004 06:32:25 -0400 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([213.172.117.3]:50561 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263591AbUEHKcT (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2004 06:32:19 -0400 Message-ID: <409CB71E.9020602@colorfullife.com> Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 12:31:58 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: davej@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dentry bloat. References: <20040506200027.GC26679@redhat.com> <20040506150944.126bb409.akpm@osdl.org> <409B1511.6010500@colorfullife.com> <20040508012357.3559fb6e.akpm@osdl.org> <20040508022304.17779635.akpm@osdl.org> <20040508031159.782d6a46.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040508031159.782d6a46.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: >Andrew Morton wrote: > > >>Here be another patch. >> >> > > >Can't help myself! > > >- d_vfs_flags can be removed - just use d_flags. It looks like someone > added d_vfs_flags with the intent of doing bitops on it, but all > modifications are under dcache_lock. 4 bytes saved. > > IIRC it was intended to access one of the flag fields under dentry->d_lock. -- Manfred