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authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>2005-10-30 15:02:16 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-30 17:37:19 -0800
commit2f51201662b28dbf8c15fb7eb972bc51c6cc3fa5 (patch)
tree96826df796058560bc5dd1f7d8d476c5a741d7bc /include
parent503af334ecf23b9d65d2ff0cc759f3a0bf338290 (diff)
[PATCH] reduce sizeof(struct file)
Now that RCU applied on 'struct file' seems stable, we can place f_rcuhead in a memory location that is not anymore used at call_rcu(&f->f_rcuhead, file_free_rcu) time, to reduce the size of this critical kernel object. The trick I used is to move f_rcuhead and f_list in an union called f_u The callers are changed so that f_rcuhead becomes f_u.fu_rcuhead and f_list becomes f_u.f_list Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index f83d997c558..6d6226732c9 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -574,7 +574,14 @@ struct file_ra_state {
#define RA_FLAG_INCACHE 0x02 /* file is already in cache */
struct file {
- struct list_head f_list;
+ /*
+ * fu_list becomes invalid after file_free is called and queued via
+ * fu_rcuhead for RCU freeing
+ */
+ union {
+ struct list_head fu_list;
+ struct rcu_head fu_rcuhead;
+ } f_u;
struct dentry *f_dentry;
struct vfsmount *f_vfsmnt;
struct file_operations *f_op;
@@ -598,7 +605,6 @@ struct file {
spinlock_t f_ep_lock;
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL */
struct address_space *f_mapping;
- struct rcu_head f_rcuhead;
};
extern spinlock_t files_lock;
#define file_list_lock() spin_lock(&files_lock);