Re: [PATCH 2/8] readahead: state based method routines: explicitly embed class_new/class_old inside flags

[Bodo Eggert]

Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The new/old ra class were implicitly stored in low bits of
> file_ra_state.flags. Now make the data structure obvious, and remove the
> coding tricks.

> +++ linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/include/linux/fs.h

> -     unsigned long flags;    /* RA_FLAG_xxx | ra_class_old | ra_class_new */
> +     union {
> +             unsigned long   flags;  /* RA_FLAG_xxx | class_old | class_new */
> +             struct {
> +                     u8      class_new;
> +                     u8      class_old;

This doesn't work on big endiam machines, does it?

IMO you should use a bitfield instead.
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