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fs: shave 8 bytes off of struct inode
authorAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Thu, 5 Jul 2018 06:25:43 +0000 (09:25 +0300)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 8 Jul 2018 23:58:24 +0000 (19:58 -0400)
commit69448867abcb231afaa7891ff9d9fd04b2b94a0d
tree048d1b06f729cdbca51eb35d3bf04a4acc07cd6f
parentb7d3f17fa7a93250daec8c679bf8069715dbeb25
fs: shave 8 bytes off of struct inode

Here is a link to Linus' reply to Jan's concern about making
i_blkbibts byte addressable:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=152882624707975&w=2

Here is a link to an lkp.org report about potential performance
improvement in some workload, which could(?) be related to packing
i_blkbits closer to i_bytes/i_lock:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=153077048108198&w=2

Changes since v1:
- Add links to relevant discussions

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
include/linux/fs.h