Re: dentry bloat.

[Helge Hafting]

Matt Mackall wrote:

> One also wonders about whether all the RCU stuff is needed on UP. I'm
> not sure if I grok all the finepoints here, but it looks like the
> answer is no and that we can make struct_rcu head empty and have
> call_rcu fall directly through to the callback. This would save
> something like 16-32 bytes (32/64bit), not to mention a bunch of
> dinking around with lists and whatnot.
>
> So what am I missing?
>  
Preempt can happen anytime, I believe.

Helge Hafting
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