Subject: [patch 0/8] Inode slimming patches, part 1
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2006-07-03 00:53:33 GMT (3 years, 2 days and 8 minutes ago)
The following patches are against 2.6.17-mm5, and reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode (i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat in the VFS inode structure). - Ted