Re: [PATCH] Shrinks sizeof(files_struct) and better layout

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 08:14:29 EST


Andrew Morton a écrit :
Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[PATCH] shrink the fdset and reorder fields to give better multi-threaded performance.

Boy, this is going to need some elaborate performance testing..

We can't have that `8 * sizeof(embedded_fd_set)' splattered all over the
tree. This?


Fine patch Andrew :)

I was a bit unsure of introducing a XXXX_SIZE macro expressed in bits instead of bytes (more natural unit at least for us humans)

Thank you
Eric



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