Re: [PATCH] 2.6 RPAPHP structure size/performance

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:21:54AM -0500, linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Please review and apply the following patch if you find it agreeable.
> 
> This patch does not make any functional changes, but does improve
> both performance and memory usage by rearranging structure elements.
> 
> The need for these changes became appearent during a code review of
> the disassembly involving this structure. The memory footprint of this
> structure is made smaller by grouping the byte fields next to each other.
> The access of the list_head can be simplified by making it the first element
> of the structure, thus avoiding a needless add-immediate without negatively
> impacting any of the other accesses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h
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