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    VFS: increase pseudo-filesystem block size to PAGE_SIZE · 3971e1a9
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        commit ba52de12
        Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
        Date:   Wed Sep 27 01:50:49 2006 -0700
    
            [PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure
    
    caused the block size used by pseudo-filesystems to decrease from
    PAGE_SIZE to 1024 leading to a doubling of the number of context switches
    during a kernbench run.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Nixon <Alex.Nixon@citrix.com>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
    Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
    Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
    Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
    Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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