09 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Jan, 2006
1 commit
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Some long time ago, dentry struct was carefully tuned so that on 32 bits
UP, sizeof(struct dentry) was exactly 128, ie a power of 2, and a multiple
of memory cache lines.Then RCU was added and dentry struct enlarged by two pointers, with nice
results for SMP, but not so good on UP, because breaking the above tuning
(128 + 8 = 136 bytes)This patch reverts this unwanted side effect, by using an union (d_u),
where d_rcu and d_child are placed so that these two fields can share their
memory needs.At the time d_free() is called (and d_rcu is really used), d_child is known
to be empty and not touched by the dentry freeing.Lockless lookups only access d_name, d_parent, d_lock, d_op, d_flags (so
the previous content of d_child is not needed if said dentry was unhashed
but still accessed by a CPU because of RCU constraints)As dentry cache easily contains millions of entries, a size reduction is
worth the extra complexity of the ugly C union.Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Cc: Dipankar Sarma
Cc: Maneesh Soni
Cc: Miklos Szeredi
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Cc: Ian Kent
Cc: Paul Jackson
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: James Morris
Cc: Stephen Smalley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.Let it rip!
