Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: merge two uchar variable in struct node_info to reduce memory cost

[Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>]

Hi Changman,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Changman Lee [mailto:cm224.lee@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:09 PM
> To: Chao Yu
> Cc: Jaegeuk Kim; Changman Lee; linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v2] f2fs: merge two uchar variable in struct node_info to reduce
> memory cost
> 
> Hi Yu,
> 
> This patch is effective only in 32 bit machine. In case of 64 bit
> machine, nat_entry will be aligned in 8 bytes due to pointer variable
> (i.e. struct list_head). So it can't get any benefit to reduce memory
> usage. In the case of node_info, however, it will be gain in terms of
> memory usage.
> Hence, I think it's not correct for commit log to describe this patch.
> 

Thanks for your review! :)

AFFIK, in 64 bit machine, size of struct nat_entry is 40 bytes before this patch
apply, the reason is that our compiler will fill 3 bytes pads after flag as
nid's offset should align to type size of nid, and then fill 7 byte pads after
version as size of structure should align to 64 bits when the struct size is bigger
than 64 bits.
layout of struct nat_entry:
|-----8 bytes-----|
|list.next        |
|list.prev        |
|flag    |nid     |
|ino     |blk_addr|
|version          |
After we apply this patch, size of struct nat_entry will be reduced to 32 bytes.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Anyway, I agreed that commit log should be uptodate.

Thanks,
Yu

> Thanks,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
> 


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