How to understand the codes about dentry ?

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Thu Aug 29 06:58:48 EDT 2013


Hi..

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:30 PM, lx <lxlenovostar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why count the hash value use "L1_CACHE_BYTES" , "D_HASHBITS" and
> "D_HASHMASK"?

regarding L1_CACHE_BYTES, I have a strong guess, it is done to make
the hash cache aligned...i.e faster read

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