linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Save some bytes in mm_struct by filling holes on 64bit

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Message-ID: <20080313164033.GD1289@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:40:33 -0400
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Save some bytes in mm_struct by filling holes on 64bit

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:28:07PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Save some bytes in mm_struct by filling holes
> 
> Putting int values together for better packing on 64bit 
> shrinks sizeof(struct mm_struct) from 776 bytes to 760 bytes.

Are you going to fix the nice comments that mentioned what feature they
were part of now that things are all mixed together?  I wonder if a few
bytes aren't worth paying for readable code.

After all now some 'aio bits' things are not in the 'aio bits' labeled
section.

> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.25-rc5/include/linux/mm_types.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.25-rc5.orig/include/linux/mm_types.h
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc5/include/linux/mm_types.h
> @@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ struct mm_struct {
>  	atomic_t mm_users;			/* How many users with user space? */
>  	atomic_t mm_count;			/* How many references to "struct mm_struct" (users count as 1) */
>  	int map_count;				/* number of VMAs */
> +	rwlock_t		ioctx_list_lock;	/* aio lock */
>  	struct rw_semaphore mmap_sem;
>  	spinlock_t page_table_lock;		/* Protects page tables and some counters */
>  
> @@ -213,14 +214,13 @@ struct mm_struct {
>  	unsigned int token_priority;
>  	unsigned int last_interval;
>  
> +	int core_waiters;
>  	unsigned long flags; /* Must use atomic bitops to access the bits */
>  
>  	/* coredumping support */
> -	int core_waiters;
>  	struct completion *core_startup_done, core_done;
>  
>  	/* aio bits */
> -	rwlock_t		ioctx_list_lock;
>  	struct kioctx		*ioctx_list;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
>  	struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup;
> --

--
Len Sorensen
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