linux/net
Eric Dumazet 5160ee6fc8 [PATCH] shrink dentry struct
Some long time ago, dentry struct was carefully tuned so that on 32 bits
UP, sizeof(struct dentry) was exactly 128, ie a power of 2, and a multiple
of memory cache lines.

Then RCU was added and dentry struct enlarged by two pointers, with nice
results for SMP, but not so good on UP, because breaking the above tuning
(128 + 8 = 136 bytes)

This patch reverts this unwanted side effect, by using an union (d_u),
where d_rcu and d_child are placed so that these two fields can share their
memory needs.

At the time d_free() is called (and d_rcu is really used), d_child is known
to be empty and not touched by the dentry freeing.

Lockless lookups only access d_name, d_parent, d_lock, d_op, d_flags (so
the previous content of d_child is not needed if said dentry was unhashed
but still accessed by a CPU because of RCU constraints)

As dentry cache easily contains millions of entries, a size reduction is
worth the extra complexity of the ugly C union.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:58 -08:00
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802
8021q
appletalk
atm [NET]: Use newer is_multicast_ether_addr() in some files 2006-01-06 13:05:58 -08:00
ax25
bluetooth Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 2006-01-04 18:44:12 -08:00
bridge [BRIDGE] netfilter: vlan + hw checksum = bug? 2006-01-06 13:13:29 -08:00
core [NET]: Endian-annotate in_aton() 2006-01-06 13:24:54 -08:00
dccp [NETFILTER]: Handle NAT in IPsec policy checks 2006-01-07 12:57:37 -08:00
decnet
econet
ethernet [NET]: Use newer is_multicast_ether_addr() in some files 2006-01-06 13:05:58 -08:00
ieee80211
ipv4 [IPV4]: make ip_fragment() static 2006-01-07 13:23:39 -08:00
ipv6 [PATCH] slab: remove unused align parameter from alloc_percpu 2006-01-08 20:12:39 -08:00
ipx
irda Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-01-04 16:34:57 -08:00
key
lapb
llc
netfilter [NETFILTER]: Fix module_param types and permissions 2006-01-05 12:19:46 -08:00
netlink
netrom
packet
rose
rxrpc
sched
sctp [NETFILTER]: Keep conntrack reference until IPsec policy checks are done 2006-01-07 12:57:36 -08:00
sunrpc [PATCH] shrink dentry struct 2006-01-08 20:13:58 -08:00
unix
wanrouter
x25 [X25]: Fix for broken x25 module. 2006-01-06 13:11:35 -08:00
xfrm [NETFILTER]: Handle NAT in IPsec policy checks 2006-01-07 12:57:37 -08:00
compat.c
Kconfig
Makefile
nonet.c
socket.c
sysctl_net.c
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