Re: [PATCH] RCU: Reduce size of rcu_head 1 of 2

From: Andrew Morton (akpm_at_osdl.org)
Date: 07/31/03

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    Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:49:54 -0700
    To: dipankar@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.
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