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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, andrea@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RCU: Reduce size of rcu_head 1 of 2
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:49:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030731134954.54108d95.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030731185806.GC1990@in.ibm.com>

Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I have merged Rusty's original patch for reducing the size of
> rcu_heads by splitting the two main changes into two patches.

There are probably a lot of data structures in which we could save 4 (or 8)
bytes by converting things from doubly linked to singly linked.

And that's good, but given that at this time we are concentrating 100% on
stabilising 2.6 (aren't we?) I'll be letting these patches slide, thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-31 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-31 18:58 [PATCH] RCU: Reduce size of rcu_head 1 of 2 Dipankar Sarma
2003-07-31 19:06 ` [PATCH] RCU: Reduce size of rcu_head 2 " Dipankar Sarma
2003-07-31 20:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-07-31 21:31   ` [PATCH] RCU: Reduce size of rcu_head 1 " Dipankar Sarma
2003-07-31 21:25     ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-01 21:16       ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-01 23:00         ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-02  0:32           ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-02  1:19             ` Greg KH
2003-08-02  1:49               ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-02 13:15                 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-08  2:21                   ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-18 14:16                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-25  3:35                       ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-02  1:16           ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-08-02  1:43             ` Matt Mackall

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