On 10/03/2013 06:37 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On 2013-10-02, at 9:36 AM, T Makphaibulchoke wrote: > > What do these additional fields do to the size of struct ext4_inode_info? > I recall that Ted did a bunch of work to shrink this enough to fit nicely > into a slab, and it would be a shame to increase the inode size to overflow > the current packing and increase per-inode memory usage by 25-33%, for an > improvement that is only noticeable on a 90-core machine. > > Is there another lock that could be shared for this that is unlikely to > cause much contention?
Thanks for the suggestion. I was also thinking about this earlier, not sure if it's a good practice. Looks like it is way better than increasing the inode size. Will look into this in my rework. > > Also, it isn't clear to me why this patch is separate from 2/2, because > all it does is add fields that are not used for anything. I don't think > the 8 lines of code here are so complex that they can't be part of the > same patch that is actually using them. > > Cheers, Andreas > I was debating whether to combine them into 1 or make them 2 patches. I'll combine them into one patch in my next submittal. Thanks, Mak. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
