Re: [PATCH 01/13] fs: Use a common define for inode slab caches

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 06:56:14PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> All inode slab cache initialisation calls need to use specific flags
> so that certain core functionality works correctly (e.g. reclaimable
> memory accounting). Some of these flags are used inconsistently
> across different filesystems, so inode cache slab behaviour can vary
> according to filesystem type.
> 
> Wrap all the SLAB_* flags relevant to inode caches up into a single
> SLAB_INODES flag and convert all the inode caches to use the new
> flag.

Why do we keep the SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN flag for some filesystems?

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