Re: Horrible L2 cache effects from kernel compile

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 18:01:12 EST

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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:58:27PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 19:13, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > dentry itself. Yes, you could make it smaller (you could remove the inline
> > string from it, for example, and you could avoid allocating it at
>
> How about at least making the inline string align to the slab alignment so we
> dont waste space ?

Also, making the qstr length an unsigned short or u8 would increase the
length of the string by 2 or 3 bytes quite for free.

-ben

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