Re: dentry bloat.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 8 May 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> NOTE! It's absolutely true that DNAME_INLINE_LEN may still be different 
> from DNAME_INLINE_LEN_MIN. In particular, if something inside the struct 
> makes the alignment of "struct dentry" be bigger than the offset of the 
> last field, then DNAME_INLINE_LEN will be different from (bigger than) 
> DNAME_INLINE_LEN.

Btw, this does depend on the fact that a regular "kmem_cache_create()" 
with a alignment of 0 had better return a pointer that is always "aligned 
enough" for the architecture in question. 

But that had better be true anyway, since otherwise everything would 
basically have to specify the alignment by hand, and the alignment of 0 
would be useless.

		Linus
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