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>
This commit is contained in:
Theodore Ts'o
2009-05-21 16:01:00 -04:00
committed by Al Viro
parent ebc1ac1645
commit 9fd5746fd3
5 changed files with 23 additions and 5 deletions

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@@ -751,7 +751,6 @@ struct inode {
struct block_device *i_bdev;
struct cdev *i_cdev;
};
int i_cindex;
__u32 i_generation;