Messages in this thread | | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:55:07 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tiny MM performance and typo patches for 2.4.2 |
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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...
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