fs: Remove i_cindex from struct inode

The only user of the i_cindex element in the inode structure is used
is by the firewire drivers.  As part of an attempt to slim down the
inode structure to save memory --- since a typical Linux system will
have hundreds of thousands if not millions of inodes cached, a
reduction in the size inode has high leverage.

The firewire driver does not need i_cindex in any fast path, so it's
simple enough to calculate when it is needed, instead of wasting space
in the inode structure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: krh@redhat.com
Cc: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Theodore Ts'o 2009-05-21 16:01:00 -04:00 committed by Al Viro
parent ebc1ac1645
commit 9fd5746fd3
5 changed files with 23 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ int cdev_add(struct cdev *, dev_t, unsigned);
void cdev_del(struct cdev *);
int cdev_index(struct inode *inode);
void cd_forget(struct inode *);
extern struct backing_dev_info directly_mappable_cdev_bdi;