linux-kernel - Re: It's time to hack on dentry

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Message-ID: <20080507152533.GW19219@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Wed, 7 May 2008 09:25:33 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
Cc:	rae l <crquan@...il.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: It's time to hack on dentry_stat?

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 08:08:09AM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> One could hardcode the output of the last three (four?) fields, yes?
> Slightly grotty, but if it comes with a decent memory savings...

How can it be a 'decent memory saving'?  There is exactly _one_ struct
dentry_stat_t in the entire kernel.  So you're talking about saving 4
ints, or 16 bytes.  Bet you it'd be more bytes to hardcode printing zero.

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