Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jan 2012 09:56:45 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] sysfs: Reduce the size of sysfs_dirent |
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On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:43:47PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > > > After throwing rb_trees at the problem sysfs_dirent increased in size by > > 6 pointers, or 48 bytes. Since the point of having struct > > sysfs_dirent is to keep the size down increasing in size that much seems > > unfortunate. > > > > The following patches attack this problem and if I have counted right > > reduce the size of sysfs_dirent by 4 pointers on 64bit. Not quite > > where we were but reducing sysfs_dirent by 32bytes to 104 bytes is > > an improvement. > > Greg did you see these patches for reducing the sysfs memory size > regression in 3.2?
Ok, due to the holidays, these ended up missing the 3.3 merge window, I'll queue them up for 3.4.
thanks,
greg k-h
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