Re: Linux/Pro -- clusters

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 15:20:04 EST


Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> On December 4, 2001 07:04 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Single additional alloc -> twice as many allocs, two slabs, more cachelines
> > > dirty. This was hashed out on fsdevel, though apparently not to everyone's
> > > satisfaction.
> >
> > Al Viro's NFS in generic_ip saved me something like 130K of memory.
>
> Yes, all of these proposals would do that, by getting away from all inodes
> being the same size (basically the size of the ext2 inode).
>

ext3 is the pig at present. I think Andreas has half-a-patch
to move it to generic_ip.
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