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Date:      Fri, 30 Oct 2020 16:38:51 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r367165 - head/sys/fs/tmpfs
Message-ID:  <20201030143851.GE2654@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <CAGudoHGBMFoeOKwZWq2%2B1xC9924Xi2AEt4a1zYgwa_EA3HzAkA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <202010301407.09UE7Phw060731@repo.freebsd.org> <CAGudoHGBMFoeOKwZWq2%2B1xC9924Xi2AEt4a1zYgwa_EA3HzAkA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 03:08:32PM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> On 10/30/20, Mateusz Guzik <mjg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Author: mjg
> > Date: Fri Oct 30 14:07:25 2020
> > New Revision: 367165
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/367165
> >
> > Log:
> >   tmpfs: change tmpfs dirent zone into a malloc type
> >
> >   It is 64 bytes.
> >
> 
> Right now malloc has only power-of-2 zones but I'm looking into
> changing that. The allocator itself trivially extends to multiply of
> 16, but stat collection needs reworking.

Either commit message or follow-up do not explain why stopping using
zone for dirents is useful.  Intuition says exactly reverse, dirents
on tmpfs are allocation-intensive typically.



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