Trond Myklebust wrote:

>There are always alternatives...
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>If really this is a problem, how about slabifying the structs
>nfs_fattr and/or nfs_fh?
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Here is a patch that creates a new nfs_diropt_data slab that is used to
allocate both the nfs_fh and nfs_fattrs structures.
The patch is based on the 2.4.23-pre5 kernel.

>Also, since nfs_entry is only large due to the fh and fattr fields
>which are unused unless you have READDIRPLUS (in which case they are
>converted to pointers anyhow), how about kicking them out of
>nfs_entry altogether?
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Instead of kicking them out, I just turned them into pointers...

Comments?

SteveD.