From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, devel@openvz.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/6][NET-2.6.24] Consolidate private allocations in seq files
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:50:41 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <470BA351.3070208@openvz.org> (raw)
Many (very many) seq files in net/ allocate some private data
to use it later (mostly for iteration state). All this code
was obviously get using copy-paste method, so move it into
one place.
Almost all of these places either set this private to 0, or
keep uninitialized. Some places, however, pre-initialize this
area, but there are few of them.
The seq_open_private() call just opens the seq file with
allocated and set to zero area. The __seq_open_private() call
makes the same, but returns the allocated memory to the called
to be initialized later.
I didn't measure how much of the .text section this saves,
but I suspect a lot of :) As far as the code is concerned,
this set saves ~450 lines.
Such thing may be useful for any subsystem, but I found this
mostly in the networking code and fixed only it (for a while).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
next reply other threads:[~2007-10-09 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-09 15:50 Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2007-10-09 15:52 ` [PATCH 1/6][NET-2.6.24] Introduce the seq_open_private() Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-10 9:32 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 15:55 ` [PATCH 2/6][NET-2.6.24] Make core networking code use seq_open_private Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-10 9:32 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 15:57 ` [PATCH 3/6][NET-2.6.24] Make netfilter code use the seq_open_private Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-10 9:33 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 15:59 ` [PATCH 4/6][NET-2.6.24] Make decnet code use the seq_open_private() Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-10 9:33 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 16:01 ` [PATCH 5/6][NET-2.6.24] Make the IRDA " Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-10 9:33 ` David Miller
2007-10-09 16:04 ` [PATCH 6/6][NET-2.6.24] Make the sunrpc " Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-10 9:33 ` David Miller
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