Re: [patch] remove gendisk->stamp_idle field

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, Oct 13 2005, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> struct gendisk has these two fields: stamp, stamp_idle.  Update to
> stamp_idle is always in sync with stamp and they are always the same.
> Therefore, it does not add any value in having two fields tracking
> same timestamp.  Suggest to remove it.
> 
> Also, we should only update gendisk stats with non-zero value.
> Advantage is that we don't have to needlessly calculate memory address,
> and then add zero to the content.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx>

Added to the upstream Linus branch of the block git tree.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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