Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Aug 2003 03:01:03 +0530 | From | Dipankar Sarma <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] RCU: Reduce size of rcu_head 1 of 2 |
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:49:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > I have merged Rusty's original patch for reducing the size of > > rcu_heads by splitting the two main changes into two patches. > > There are probably a lot of data structures in which we could save 4 (or 8) > bytes by converting things from doubly linked to singly linked. > > And that's good, but given that at this time we are concentrating 100% on > stabilising 2.6 (aren't we?) I'll be letting these patches slide, thanks.
The linked-list change is internal enough for a future backport from 2.7. The only concern here is the change in call_rcu() API. What would be a good way to manage that ?
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