Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rework inode allocation to allow filesystems more control | Date | Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:55:30 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 11 September 2002 14:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This patch adds ->alloc_inode and ->destroy_inode super operations to > allow the filesystem control the allocation of struct inode, e.g. to > have it's private inode and the VFS one n the same slab cache. > > This allows to break worst-offenders like NFS out of the big inode union > and make VM balancing better by wasting less ram for inodes. It also > speedups filesystems that don't want to touch that union in struct > inode, like JFS, XFS or FreeVxFS (once switched over). It is a straight > backport from Al's code in 2.5 and has proven stable in Red Hat's > recent beta releases (limbo, null). Al has ACKed my patch submission.
How about a credit for the original author/designer? Yes, that was me.
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