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    vfs: move inode stat information closer together · 2f9d3df8
    Linus Torvalds authored
    
    
    The comment above it says "Stat data, not accessed from path walking",
    but in fact some of inode fields we use for the common stat data was way
    down at the end of the inode, causing unnecessary cache misses for the
    common stat operations.
    
    The inode structure is pretty big, and this can change padding depending
    on field width, but at least on the common 64-bit configurations this
    doesn't change the size.  Some of our inode layout has historically been
    to tro to avoid unnecessary padding fields, but cache locality is at
    least as important for layout, if not more.
    
    Noticed by looking at kernel profiles, and noticing that the "i_blkbits"
    access stood out like a sore thumb.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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