Re: [PATCH] reduce sizeof(struct file)

[Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 9/24/05, J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:05:41 +0100, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:02:18PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > Now that RCU applied on 'struct file' seems stable, we can place f_rcuhead
> > > in a memory location that is not anymore used at call_rcu(&f->f_rcuhead,
> > > file_free_rcu) time, to reduce the size of this critical kernel object.
> > >
> > > The trick I used is to move f_rcuhead and f_list in an union and defining
> > > macros to access f_list and f_rcuhead
> > >
> > > Unfortunatly f_list was also used in IPVS so I had to change
> > > include/net/ip_vs.h and net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c, changing their f_list to
> > > ipvs_f_list to avoid name clash.
> > >
> > > (This is why I send this mail to IPVS maintainers)
> >
> > Please just change all callers to use the union, there's not very many
> > of them.
> >
>
> How about anonymous unions ? gcc-3.3.3 and above support them.
> Is 2.6 supposed to be built with 2.95 ?
>
Yes, 2.6.x is expected to build with gcc 2.95.3+

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