Re: dentry bloat.

[Manfred Spraul]

Andrew Morton wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> > Here be another patch.
> >    
>
>
> Can't help myself!
>
>
> - d_vfs_flags can be removed - just use d_flags.  It looks like someone
>  added d_vfs_flags with the intent of doing bitops on it, but all
>  modifications are under dcache_lock.  4 bytes saved.
>  
IIRC it was intended to access one of the flag fields under dentry->d_lock.

--
   Manfred

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