From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:51:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:51:37 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:60426 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:51:22 -0500 From: Russell King Message-Id: <200101112009.UAA00826@raistlin.arm.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7 To: andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:09:38 +0000 (GMT) Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no (Trond Myklebust), manfred@colorfullife.com (Manfred Spraul), mantel@suse.de (Hubert Mantel), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) In-Reply-To: <20010111194354.F3560@athlon.random> from "Andrea Arcangeli" at Jan 11, 2001 07:43:54 PM X-Location: london.england.earth.mulky-way.universe X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrea Arcangeli writes: > This patch looks fine w.r.t. alignment but given the below seems called > at runtime (not just at mount time) for performance and to save a dozen of bytes > of kernel stack it would probably better to use the nfs_fh structure in > 2.2.19pre7 for the in-kernel representation and to define a new structure for > userspace message passing (defined as the nfs_fh in 2.2.19pre6). But at least > now we see _why_ it broke ;) Ok, this ties up 100% with my suggestion number (1), so I'm happy. ;) _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/