linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xfs: do not pass size into kmem

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Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:35:39 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
To:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
CC:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: do not pass size into kmem_free, it's unused

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>>> Patches are welcome - I'd be over the moon if any of the known 4k
>>> stack advocates sent a stack reduction patch for XFS, but it seems
>>> that actually trying to fix the problems is much harder than
>>> resending a one line patch every few months....
>> kmem_free() function takes (ptr, size) arguments but doesn't
>> actually use second one.
>>
>> This patch removes size argument from all callsites.
> 
> I didn't expect it to but this does reduce a few things slightly.
> 
> On x86_64:
> 
> -xfs_attr_leaf_list_int 200
> +xfs_attr_leaf_list_int 184
> 
> -xfs_dir2_sf_to_block 136
> +xfs_dir2_sf_to_block 120
> 
> -xfs_ifree_cluster 136
> +xfs_ifree_cluster 120
> 
> -xfs_inumbers 184
> +xfs_inumbers 168
> 
> -xfs_mount_free 24

And on x86, just for the record (fedora 9 config in both cases...)

-xfs_attr_leaf_inactive 36
+xfs_attr_leaf_inactive 32

-xfs_attr_shortform_list 40
+xfs_attr_shortform_list 36

-xfs_da_grow_inode 96
+xfs_da_grow_inode 92

-xfs_dir2_grow_inode 116
+xfs_dir2_grow_inode 104

-xfs_dir2_leaf_getdents 176
+xfs_dir2_leaf_getdents 172

-xfs_dir2_sf_to_block 92
+xfs_dir2_sf_to_block 88

-xfs_ifree_cluster 108
+xfs_ifree_cluster 104

-xfs_inumbers 88
+xfs_inumbers 84

-xfs_lock_inodes 24
+xfs_lock_inodes 28

-Eric
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