pahole - Finding holes in kernel structs

[Ed Schouten]

* Max Laier <max at love2party.net> wrote:
> So to answer your first question, submitting 101 patches to rearrange 101 
> structs is certainly a wasted effort.  However, if you take a good look at the 
> 2000 holes, identify an interesting subset and submit a patch to fix that 
> subset ... that would be a worthwhile effort ... IMHO.

I guess it's also a wasted effort to reduce struct tty from 8xx to 7xx
bytes, because it still allocates 1024 bytes of memory using malloc(9).
I guess we should mainly focus on structures that are allocated using
uma(9) or are slightly bigger than 2^n.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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