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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2006-09-27 01:50:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-27 08:26:17 -0700 |
| commit | 8e18e2941c53416aa219708e7dcad21fb4bd6794 (patch) | |
| tree | 44118f8b09556193ac93e0b71aecfa3e1d4bc182 /fs/autofs | |
| parent | 6a1d9805ec506d8b9d04450997707da5f643d87c (diff) | |
| download | linux-8e18e2941c53416aa219708e7dcad21fb4bd6794.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private
The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).
This patch:
The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.
[judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/autofs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/autofs/inode.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/autofs/symlink.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/autofs/inode.c b/fs/autofs/inode.c index c81d6b8c2828..d39d2acd9b38 100644 --- a/fs/autofs/inode.c +++ b/fs/autofs/inode.c @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static void autofs_read_inode(struct inode *inode) inode->i_op = &autofs_symlink_inode_operations; sl = &sbi->symlink[n]; - inode->u.generic_ip = sl; + inode->i_private = sl; inode->i_mode = S_IFLNK | S_IRWXUGO; inode->i_mtime.tv_sec = inode->i_ctime.tv_sec = sl->mtime; inode->i_mtime.tv_nsec = inode->i_ctime.tv_nsec = 0; diff --git a/fs/autofs/symlink.c b/fs/autofs/symlink.c index 52e8772b066e..c74f2eb65775 100644 --- a/fs/autofs/symlink.c +++ b/fs/autofs/symlink.c @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ /* Nothing to release.. */ static void *autofs_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd) { - char *s=((struct autofs_symlink *)dentry->d_inode->u.generic_ip)->data; + char *s=((struct autofs_symlink *)dentry->d_inode->i_private)->data; nd_set_link(nd, s); return NULL; } |