Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:13:48 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints? |
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Alexander Viro writes: > > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > - keep a separate VFSinode and FSinode slab cache > > Yup. > > > - allocate an enlarged VFSinode that contains the FSinode at the end, > > with the generic pointer in the VFSinode part pointing to FSinode > > part. > > Please, don't. It would help with bloat only if you allocated these > beasts separately for each fs and then you end up with _many_ allocators > that can generate pointer to struct inode. > > "One type - one allocator" is a good rule - violating it turns into > major PITA couple of years down the road 9 times out of 10.
Agreed. The better option is the separate VFSinode and FSinode caches. The enlarged inode scheme is also ugly, like the unions. It's just less bloated :-)
Regards,
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