From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750831AbWGCBAX (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jul 2006 21:00:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750927AbWGCBAX (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jul 2006 21:00:23 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:1476 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750831AbWGCBAW (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jul 2006 21:00:22 -0400 Message-Id: <20060703005333.706556000@candygram.thunk.org> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:53:33 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: akpm@osdl.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch 0/8] Inode slimming patches, part 1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The following patches are against 2.6.17-mm5, and reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode (i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat in the VFS inode structure). - Ted