Re: Strange interrupt behaviour
Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:09:20 +0200
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 06:23:30PM +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I certainly agree that we might have a 16-byte "default allocation" inside
> the dentry, and have the name pointer point to that when it is enough.
> That would work - waste some memory when there are names longer than 16
> bytes, but those are rare, and it would save memory for the default case
> by having just one allocation.
>
> Andi, do you want to look into this?
My kernel already runs with this :), so expect a patch soon.
I have just to verify that it does the right thing in the rename case.
-Andi
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