On Sat, 5 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > I doubt if this is measurable, really. It'll be something like the > difference between an L1 hit and an L2 hit in amongst all the other stuff > we do on a per-inode basis. The cache effects are probably not easily measurable but I was worried about CPU time. The slab constructors and destructors were originally designed to reduce CPU time spent on initializing objects. But I don't think that's relevant anymore on todays CPUs. Pekka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
