On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 18:56 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote: > To keep the hashtable small, as per hch's request. Adding to the hashtable was my first suggestion (and actually it still seems reasonable to me), but according to hch, the reason most of these filesystems don't add their inodes to the hashtable is that they are generally pinned in memory. Adding them might slow down inode lookups for filesystems that don't pin their inodes. Still, even though they're pinned, we need to keep track of them somehow to know that i_ino is unique. idr is one way, but there are certainly others. Another approach would be to add a entirely separate hashtable for these inodes, but I figured I'd try this way first. -- Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
