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Workqueues get a rework

Workqueues get a rework

Posted Nov 30, 2006 10:54 UTC (Thu) by kzin (subscriber, #841)
Parent article: Workqueues get a rework

...so how much did it save? We go down from 96 bytes on 64-bit machines to what?


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Workqueues get a rework

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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