linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] befs: Don't pass huge structs by value.

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Date:	Sat, 25 Dec 2010 20:26:03 -0500
From:	Will Dyson <will_dyson@...ox.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Makoto Kato <m_kato@....so-net.ne.jp>,
	"Sergey S. Kostyliov" <rathamahata@...4.ru>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] befs: Don't pass huge structs by value.

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> 'struct befs_disk_data_stream' is huge (~144 bytes) and it's being passed
> by value in fs/befs/endian.h::cpu_to_fsrun().
>
> It seems to me that it would be better to pass a pointer, no?
> This patch changes the function to take a pointer to the large struct.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>

Seems very reasonable to me. Unfortunately, I have no longer have any
befs filesystems to test on either.

-- 
Will Dyson
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