linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] eventfs: get rid of dentry pointers without refcounts

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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:58:26 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] eventfs: get rid of dentry pointers without refcounts

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 14:55, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>
> Remember, the files don't have an ei allocated. Only directories.

Crossed emails.

> I then counted the length of the string - 7 bytes (which is the same as the
> length of the string plus the '\0' character - 8 bytes) to accommodate the
> pointer size, and it's a savings of 22KB per instance. And in actuality, I
> should have rounded to the nearest kmalloc slab size as kzalloc() isn't going to
> return 35 bytes back but 64 bytes will be allocated.

No. See my other email. The kmalloc sizes actually means that it comes
out exactly even.

             Linus