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    [PATCH] dentry shrinkage · fd2d8760
    Andrew Morton authored
    Rework dentries so that the inline name length is between 31 and 48 bytes.
    
    On SMP P4-compiled x86 each dentry consumes 160 bytes (24 per page).
    
    Here's the histogram of name lengths on all 1.5M files on my workstation:
    
    1:  0%
    2:  0%
    3:  1%
    4:  5%
    5:  8%
    6:  13%
    7:  19%
    8:  26%
    9:  33%
    10:  42%
    11:  49%
    12:  55%
    13:  60%
    14:  64%
    15:  67%
    16:  69%
    17:  71%
    18:  73%
    19:  75%
    20:  76%
    21:  78%
    22:  79%
    23:  80%
    24:  81%
    25:  82%
    26:  83%
    27:  85%
    28:  86%
    29:  87%
    30:  88%
    31:  89%
    32:  90%
    33:  91%
    34:  92%
    35:  93%
    36:  94%
    37:  95%
    38:  96%
    39:  96%
    40:  96%
    41:  96%
    42:  96%
    43:  96%
    44:  97%
    45:  97%
    46:  97%
    47:  97%
    48:  97%
    49:  98%
    50:  98%
    51:  98%
    52:  98%
    53:  98%
    54:  98%
    55:  98%
    56:  98%
    57:  98%
    58:  98%
    59:  98%
    60:  99%
    61:  99%
    62:  99%
    63:  99%
    64:  99%
    
    So on x86 we'll fit 89% of filenames into the inline name.
    
    
    The patch also removes the NAME_ALLOC_LEN() rounding-up of the storage for the
    out-of-line names.  That seems unnecessary.
    fd2d8760
dcache.c 42 KB