Re: [PATCH 05/10] Reduce per table entry overhead by 4 bytes

From: Nitin Gupta
Date: Tue Aug 10 2010 - 00:55:31 EST


On 08/10/2010 12:29 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Each zram device maintains an array (table) that maps
>> index within the device to the location of corresponding
>> compressed chunk. Currently we store 'struct page' pointer,
>> offset with page and various flags separately which takes
>> 12 bytes per table entry. Now all these are encoded in a
>> single 'phys_add_t' value which results in savings of 4 bytes
>> per entry (except on PAE systems).
>>
>> Unfortunately, cleanups related to some variable renames
>> were mixed in this patch. So, please bear some additional
>> noise.
>
> The noise makes this patch pretty difficult to review properly. Care
> to spilt the patch into two pieces?
>

Ok, I will split them as separate patches.

Thanks for all the reviews and Acks.
Nitin

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