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DateTue, 17 Jan 2006 16:06:45 +0100
FromPhilippe Elie <>
SubjectRe: make "struct d_cookie" dependable on CONFIG_PROFILING?
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 at 10:27 +0000, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> Is there any good reason for not making "struct dcookie_struct
> *d_cookie" dependable on CONFIG_PROFILING?
>
> Shrinks "struct dentry" from 128 bytes to 124 on x86, allowing
> 31 objects per slab instead of 30.
>
> John Levon informed me that he had such selection in his
> original patches, but was asked but take it off (?).

iirc this was seen usefull by other tools than profiler but
fs/Makefile contains:

obj-$(CONFIG_PROFILING) += dcookies.o

and nobody complained agaisnt it.

--
regards,
Philippe Elie

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