Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:07:54 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints? |
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> - keep a separate VFSinode and FSinode slab cache
Yup.
> - allocate an enlarged VFSinode that contains the FSinode at the end, > with the generic pointer in the VFSinode part pointing to FSinode > part.
Please, don't. It would help with bloat only if you allocated these beasts separately for each fs and then you end up with _many_ allocators that can generate pointer to struct inode.
"One type - one allocator" is a good rule - violating it turns into major PITA couple of years down the road 9 times out of 10.
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