On Thu, 2023-09-28 at 14:35 +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 2:06 PM Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The recent change to use discrete integers instead of struct timespec64 > > in struct inode shaved 8 bytes off of it, but it also moves the i_lock > > into the previous cacheline, away from the fields that it protects. > > > > Move i_blocks up above the i_lock, which moves the new 4 byte hole to > > just after the timestamps, without changing the size of the structure. > > > > Instead of creating an implicit hole, can you please move i_generation > to fill the 4 bytes hole. > > It makes sense in the same cache line with i_ino and I could > use the vacant 4 bytes hole above i_fsnotify_mask to expand the > mask to 64bit (the 32bit event mask space is running out). > > Thanks, > Amir. > Sounds like a plan. Resulting struct inode size is the same (616 bytes with my kdevops kconfig). BTW: all of these changes are in my "amtime" branch if anyone wants to pull them down. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>