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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2006-09-27 01:50:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-27 08:26:17 -0700
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[PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private
The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode (i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat in the VFS inode structure). This patch: The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union, which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where the union will actually be used. [judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/inode.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 0bf9f0444a96..77e254792025 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static struct inode *alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
bdi = sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info;
mapping->backing_dev_info = bdi;
}
- memset(&inode->u, 0, sizeof(inode->u));
+ inode->i_private = 0;
inode->i_mapping = mapping;
}
return inode;