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SubjectRe: Strange interrupt behaviour
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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