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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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@ -568,8 +568,8 @@ struct ata_port {
struct ata_host *host;
struct device *dev;
struct work_struct port_task;
struct work_struct hotplug_task;
struct delayed_work port_task;
struct delayed_work hotplug_task;
struct work_struct scsi_rescan_task;
unsigned int hsm_task_state;