Re: [PATCH] RCU: Reduce size of rcu_head 1 of 2

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 15:49:54 EST


Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I have merged Rusty's original patch for reducing the size of
> rcu_heads by splitting the two main changes into two patches.

There are probably a lot of data structures in which we could save 4 (or 8)
bytes by converting things from doubly linked to singly linked.

And that's good, but given that at this time we are concentrating 100% on
stabilising 2.6 (aren't we?) I'll be letting these patches slide, thanks.
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