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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "akpm >> Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] cgroups: Shrink struct cgroup_subsys
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:52:34 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD9ECD2.3030805@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim6d1fQLZbkmZST3PTN0RMSs3m=oossF81pYBn9@mail.gmail.com>

Paul Menage wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> bool active;
>> bool disabled;
>> ...
>>
>> ?
>>
>> With alignment 5-8 bool values == 8 bytes in 64-bit machine, compared to
>> 4 bytes with the approach this patch takes.
> 
> I meant specifying it as:
> 
> bool active:1;
> bool disabled:1;
> 

It won't compile, but unsigned char active:1 will do. ;)

> i.e. keeping the bit-sized flags but also keeping the bool semantics.
> Having said that, I'm not really sure why saving 12 bytes per
> subsystem is worth a patch.

Every thing that reduces code size (without sacrifice readability
and maintain maintainability) should be worth.

This is one of the reasons we accept patches that replacing
kmalloc+memset with kzalloc, which just saves 8 bytes in my box.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-10  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-22  8:09 [PATCH 0/7] cgroups: Allow to bind/unbind subsystems to/from non-trival hierarchy Li Zefan
2010-10-22  8:09 ` [PATCH 1/7] cgroups: Shrink struct cgroup_subsys Li Zefan
2010-10-28 23:34   ` Paul Menage
2010-11-08  5:23     ` Li Zefan
2010-11-09 21:05       ` Paul Menage
2010-11-10  0:52         ` Li Zefan [this message]
2010-11-10  1:53           ` Paul Menage
2010-11-10  2:06             ` Li Zefan
2010-11-10  2:15               ` Paul Menage
2010-10-22  8:09 ` [PATCH 2/7] cgroups: Allow to bind a subsystem to a cgroup hierarchy Li Zefan
2010-10-22 12:47   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-25  0:59     ` Li Zefan
2010-10-22 21:38   ` Matt Helsley
2010-10-25  1:23     ` Li Zefan
2010-10-28 23:57     ` Paul Menage
2010-10-28 23:55   ` Paul Menage
2010-11-08  5:26     ` Li Zefan
2010-10-22  8:10 ` [PATCH 3/7] cgroups: Allow to unbind subsystem from a cgroup hierarachy Li Zefan
2010-10-29  0:02   ` Paul Menage
2010-10-22  8:11 ` [PATCH 4/7] cgroups: Mark some subsystems bindable Li Zefan
2010-10-22  8:11 ` [PATCH 5/7] cgroups: Make freezer subsystem bindable Li Zefan
2010-10-22 20:57   ` Matt Helsley
2010-10-22 21:46     ` Matt Helsley
2010-10-29  0:06       ` Paul Menage
2010-10-22 21:57     ` Matt Helsley
2010-10-25  1:15     ` Li Zefan
2010-10-22  8:12 ` [PATCH 6/7] cgroups: Warn if a bindable subsystem calls css_get() Li Zefan
2010-10-29  0:05   ` Paul Menage
2010-10-22  8:12 ` [PATCH 7/7] cgroups: Update documentation for bindable subsystems Li Zefan
2010-10-25  0:36   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-10-25  0:52     ` Li Zefan
2010-10-25  0:56       ` Li Zefan
2010-10-29  0:13   ` Paul Menage
2010-10-29  0:15     ` Paul Menage
2010-11-08  5:27     ` Li Zefan
2010-10-22 12:50 ` [PATCH 0/7] cgroups: Allow to bind/unbind subsystems to/from non-trival hierarchy Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-25  1:07   ` Li Zefan
2010-10-28 23:33     ` Paul Menage

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