From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269226AbTGaVBt (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:01:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269232AbTGaVBt (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:01:49 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:31368 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269226AbTGaVBt (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:01:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:49:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton 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 Message-Id: <20030731134954.54108d95.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030731185806.GC1990@in.ibm.com> References: <20030731185806.GC1990@in.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dipankar Sarma 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.