Re: [patch 20/23] dentries: Add constructor

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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:

> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
> 
> Seems to be some garbling on there in the signed-off lines.

Yes that needs to be fixed.

> > +void dcache_ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *p)
> > +{
> > +	struct dentry *dentry = p;
> > +
> > +	spin_lock_init(&dentry->d_lock);
> > +	dentry->d_inode = NULL;
> > +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_lru);
> > +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_alias);
> > +}
> > +
> 
> Is there any noticable overhead to the constructor?

Its a minor performance win since we can avoid reinitializing these
values and zeroing the object on alloc if there are already allocated 
objects.
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