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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] remove unused blkp field in percpu_data
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 02:15:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4390F1C2.7080602@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <438C7218.8030109@cosmosbay.com>

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[PATCH] remove unused blkp field in percpu_data

I found that blkp field was not used in kernel tree.

As most of the times NR_CPUS is a power of two and kmalloc() memory blocks 
too, this extra field basically doubles the memory space allocated in 
__alloc_percpu() to store the 'struct percpu_data'

(for example, if NR_CPUS=8 on i386, kmalloc(4*8+4) returns a 64 bytes block 
instead of a 32 bytes block after this patch)


Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

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--- linux-2.6/include/linux/percpu.h	2005-11-29 04:51:27.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-ed/linux/percpu.h	2005-12-03 01:57:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 
 struct percpu_data {
 	void *ptrs[NR_CPUS];
-	void *blkp;
 };
 
 /* 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-03  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-29  7:17 [PATCH] race condition in procfs Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-29  8:09 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-29  8:38   ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-29 13:25     ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-29 14:04       ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-29 14:28         ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-29 14:39           ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-29 14:49             ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-30 14:41               ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-30 15:14                 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-30 15:29                   ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-30 16:25                     ` Steven Rostedt
2005-11-30 17:23                       ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-12-01 20:38                         ` Grzegorz Nosek
2005-11-29 15:22   ` [PATCH] shrinks dentry struct Eric Dumazet
2005-11-30  2:06     ` Paul Jackson
2005-11-30  2:14       ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-30  2:43         ` Paul Jackson
2005-11-30  6:56         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-03  1:15     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2005-12-13 18:03     ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-12-13 18:24       ` Eric Dumazet

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