Re: [RFC 8/8] Reduce inode memory usage for systems with a high MAX_NUMNODES

[Paul Menage]

On 1/15/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This solution may be a bit hokey. I tried other approaches but this
> one seemed to be the simplest with the least complications. Maybe someone
> else can come up with a better solution?

How about a 64-bit field in struct inode that's used as a bitmask if
there are no more than 64 nodes, and a pointer to a bitmask if there
are more than 64 nodes. The filesystems wouldn't need to be involved
then, as the bitmap allocation could be done in the generic code.

Paul
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