On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 12:45:35PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Fri, 6 July 2007 13:40:03 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > An interesting topic is certainly > > > > 1. Large buffer support > > > > 2. icache/dentry/buffer_head defragmentation. > > Oh certainly! I should dust off my dcache_static patch. Some dentries > are hands-off for the shrinker, basically mountpoints and tmpfs. The > patch moves those to a seperate slab cache.
I doubt there's enough of those to make any difference - putting all the directories into another slab did little to reduce fragmentation (~18 months ago we tried that), so I don't think that this would help at all... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
