Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:09:20 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Strange interrupt behaviour |
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On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 06:23:30PM +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I certainly agree that we might have a 16-byte "default allocation" inside > the dentry, and have the name pointer point to that when it is enough. > That would work - waste some memory when there are names longer than 16 > bytes, but those are rare, and it would save memory for the default case > by having just one allocation. > > Andi, do you want to look into this?
My kernel already runs with this :), so expect a patch soon.
I have just to verify that it does the right thing in the rename case.
-Andi
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