[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>
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 6e57ee2..f60155e 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@
struct file *f;
file_list_lock();
- list_for_each_entry(f, &sb->s_files, f_list) {
+ list_for_each_entry(f, &sb->s_files, f_u.fu_list) {
if (S_ISREG(f->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mode) && file_count(f))
f->f_mode &= ~FMODE_WRITE;
}
