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Message-Id: <1194208158.5911.63.camel@lappy>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:29:18 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: device struct bloat
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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