Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: device struct bloat | | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | | Date | Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:29:18 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 12:48 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The sizeof(struct device) is way too big, especially in the network device case. > We want to support 1000's of device's and the change from class_device to > net_device has caused needless bloat. > > sizeof(struct device) = 272 > sizeof(struct class_device) = 92 > * not the class_id in class_device could also be removed or changed to > a ptr, since it is redundant for net_devices.
The thing that surprised me most was that it contains a struct semaphore, Greg, is that really needed?
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