Re: [PATCH] xfs: do not pass size into kmem_free, it's unused

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 23:35:49 EST


Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>>> Patches are welcome - I'd be over the moon if any of the known 4k
>>> stack advocates sent a stack reduction patch for XFS, but it seems
>>> that actually trying to fix the problems is much harder than
>>> resending a one line patch every few months....
>> kmem_free() function takes (ptr, size) arguments but doesn't
>> actually use second one.
>>
>> This patch removes size argument from all callsites.
>
> I didn't expect it to but this does reduce a few things slightly.
>
> On x86_64:
>
> -xfs_attr_leaf_list_int 200
> +xfs_attr_leaf_list_int 184
>
> -xfs_dir2_sf_to_block 136
> +xfs_dir2_sf_to_block 120
>
> -xfs_ifree_cluster 136
> +xfs_ifree_cluster 120
>
> -xfs_inumbers 184
> +xfs_inumbers 168
>
> -xfs_mount_free 24

And on x86, just for the record (fedora 9 config in both cases...)

-xfs_attr_leaf_inactive 36
+xfs_attr_leaf_inactive 32

-xfs_attr_shortform_list 40
+xfs_attr_shortform_list 36

-xfs_da_grow_inode 96
+xfs_da_grow_inode 92

-xfs_dir2_grow_inode 116
+xfs_dir2_grow_inode 104

-xfs_dir2_leaf_getdents 176
+xfs_dir2_leaf_getdents 172

-xfs_dir2_sf_to_block 92
+xfs_dir2_sf_to_block 88

-xfs_ifree_cluster 108
+xfs_ifree_cluster 104

-xfs_inumbers 88
+xfs_inumbers 84

-xfs_lock_inodes 24
+xfs_lock_inodes 28

-Eric
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