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    SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH 0/8] Inode slimming
    On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Theodore Tso wrote:

    > What else remains to be done? There are a large number of fields in
    > struct inode which are never populated unless the inode is open, and
    > those should get moved into another structure which is populated only
    > when needed. There are a large number of inodes which are read into
    > memory only because stat(2) was called on them (thanks to things like
    > color ls, et. al).

    One could remove the reclaim list and use the slab lists of the slab
    allocator to scan through the inodes and reclaim them in such a way
    that would maximize the number of pages freed. I will post an RFC on that
    one later. This may reduce the complexity of inode reclaim.

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