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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2009-05-21 16:01:00 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2009-06-11 21:36:09 -0400
commit9fd5746fd3d7838bf6ff991d50f1257057d1156f (patch)
treee0afe14ea9415b0e54c40703bb44acfec100a4b3 /include
parentebc1ac164560a241d9bf1b7519062910c3f90a01 (diff)
downloadlinux-9fd5746fd3d7838bf6ff991d50f1257057d1156f.tar.gz
fs: Remove i_cindex from struct inode
The only user of the i_cindex element in the inode structure is used
is by the firewire drivers.  As part of an attempt to slim down the
inode structure to save memory --- since a typical Linux system will
have hundreds of thousands if not millions of inodes cached, a
reduction in the size inode has high leverage.

The firewire driver does not need i_cindex in any fast path, so it's
simple enough to calculate when it is needed, instead of wasting space
in the inode structure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: krh@redhat.com
Cc: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cdev.h2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cdev.h b/include/linux/cdev.h
index fb4591977b03..f389e319a454 100644
--- a/include/linux/cdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/cdev.h
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ int cdev_add(struct cdev *, dev_t, unsigned);
 
 void cdev_del(struct cdev *);
 
+int cdev_index(struct inode *inode);
+
 void cd_forget(struct inode *);
 
 extern struct backing_dev_info directly_mappable_cdev_bdi;
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index e7833ef5d1d6..bcd63706db87 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -751,7 +751,6 @@ struct inode {
 		struct block_device	*i_bdev;
 		struct cdev		*i_cdev;
 	};
-	int			i_cindex;
 
 	__u32			i_generation;