Re: [Patch] Delete sysfs_dirent.s_count, saving ~100kB on my system

[Andrew Morton]

"Adam J. Richter" <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 	Here is a rewrite of my patch to remove sysfs_dirent.s_count,
>  reducing the memory chunk that kmalloc uses for sysfs_dirent from
>  64 to 32 bytes, thereby saving about 120kB for the 3700+ nodes in
>  /sys on the ordinary PC on which I am typing this message.

That's all well and good, but sysfs_new_dirent() should be using a
standalone slab cache for allocating sysfs_dirent instances.  That way, we
use 36 bytes for each one rather than 64.
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