linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/8] remove i_alloc

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Message-ID: <20110620203211.GA2290@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:32:11 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp,
	mfasheh@...e.com, jlbec@...lplan.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] remove i_alloc_sem

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 04:15:33PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This series removes it in favour of a simpler counter scheme, thus getting
> rid of the rw_semaphore non-owner APIs as requests by Thomas, while at the
> same time shrinking the size of struct inode by 160 bytes on 64-bit systems.

This should be 160 bits, aka 20 bytes of course, sorry.

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