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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:14:01 +0100
From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Shrinks sizeof(files_struct) and better layout
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Andrew Morton a ?crit :
> Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> 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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