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WorkStruct: Separate delayable and non-delayable events.

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Separate delayable work items from non-delayable work items be splitting them
into a separate structure (delayed_work), which incorporates a work_struct and
the timer_list removed from work_struct.

The work_struct struct is huge, and this limits it's usefulness.  On a 64-bit
architecture it's nearly 100 bytes in size.  This reduces that by half for the
non-delayable type of event.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells
2006-11-22 14:54:01 +00:00
parent 0f9005a6f7
commit 52bad64d95
22 changed files with 96 additions and 73 deletions
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@ -1424,7 +1424,7 @@ static unsigned int ip_cnt;
static void rekey_seq_generator(void *private_);
static DECLARE_WORK(rekey_work, rekey_seq_generator, NULL);
static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(rekey_work, rekey_seq_generator, NULL);
/*
* Lock avoidance: