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...so how much did it save? We go down from 96 bytes on 64-bit machines to what?
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Posted Nov 30, 2006 14:44 UTC (Thu) by Randakar (guest, #27808) [Link]
If you read Morton's complaint, he's replying to this:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> These patches shrink work_struct by 8 of the 12 words it ordinarily > consumes.
So that would be saving 8 * 8 = 64 bytes. Not bad at all.
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