On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:00:58PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > d4fdcb2068eef29c03d6027aa219fa60171c6b87 is first bad commit > commit d4fdcb2068eef29c03d6027aa219fa60171c6b87 > Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Date: Thu May 21 16:00:59 2009 -0400 > > fs: i_flags and i_state in struct inode only need to be unsigned short > > Currently i_flags and i_state do not need to be an unsigned int and an > unsigned long, respectively. (We currently use 9 i_flags bits, and 8 > i_state bits.) Changing them to be an unsigned short saves 4 bytes > per inode on an x86 platform, and 8 bytes on an x86_64 platform. > > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> *gyah* Yes, it's obviously bogus. Dropped from the tree; I don't think it's really salvagable - even merging into one unsigned long will not be enough, since we will end up with different locking for different bits. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
