This removes 8 bytes of padding from struct inode on 64bit builds, and so allows 1 more object/slab in the inode_cache when using slub. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ---- patch against 2.6.33-rc8 compiled & tested on x86_64 AMDX2 I've been running this patch for over a week with no obvious problems regards Richard diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index b1bcb27..ebb1cd5 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -729,6 +729,7 @@ struct inode { uid_t i_uid; gid_t i_gid; dev_t i_rdev; + unsigned int i_blkbits; u64 i_version; loff_t i_size; #ifdef __NEED_I_SIZE_ORDERED @@ -738,7 +739,6 @@ struct inode { struct timespec i_mtime; struct timespec i_ctime; blkcnt_t i_blocks; - unsigned int i_blkbits; unsigned short i_bytes; umode_t i_mode; spinlock_t i_lock; /* i_blocks, i_bytes, maybe i_size */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html