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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 

> Well, I've done it.  Here is a patch that implements LRU for name-cache
> hits on the vnode freelist.  I doubt that it has any performance impact,
> but it makes the vnode 4 bytes smaller, which is a good thing.

Why? are they just over a power of 2 in length now? 
do we need to lose 4 bytes?


> 
> Please test and report.
> 
> Recompile or rename your LKMs before trying this!
> 
> Poul-Henning
> 
> Index: sys/vnode.h
> ===================================================================