Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:29:05 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tiny MM performance and typo patches for 2.4.2 |
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > Ulrich Kunitz writes: > > patch-uk6 In 2.4.x _page_hashfn divides struct address_space pointer > > with a parameter derived from the size of struct > > inode. Deriving this parameter from the size of struct > > address_space makes more sense -- at least for me. > > The address_space is %99 of the time (unless swapping, and in that > case the address is constant :-)) inside of an inode struct so this > change actually makes the hash worse. I looked at this one time > myself...
The other patches look fine to me. Alan, Linus, could you please include Ulrich's other patches in the next pre-kernel ?
thanks,
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