On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 11:27:01AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > A passer-by's mumble. > > We are discussing about systems with huge "struct dentry" instances where > selecting a hash list based on "struct qstr"->hash cannot effectively narrow > down candidates to compare, aren't we? This is effectively a simple bloom filter. Would be only worth it if longer hash chains are common. And if that's the case we should probably have either a larger table or a better hash (or both) -Andi -- 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