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    [PATCH] fdtable: Make fdarray and fdsets equal in size · bbea9f69
    Vadim Lobanov authored
    Currently, each fdtable supports three dynamically-sized arrays of data: the
    fdarray and two fdsets.  The code allows the number of fds supported by the
    fdarray (fdtable->max_fds) to differ from the number of fds supported by each
    of the fdsets (fdtable->max_fdset).
    
    In practice, it is wasteful for these two sizes to differ: whenever we hit a
    limit on the smaller-capacity structure, we will reallocate the entire fdtable
    and all the dynamic arrays within it, so any delta in the memory used by the
    larger-capacity structure will never be touched at all.
    
    Rather than hogging this excess, we shouldn't even allocate it in the first
    place, and keep the capacities of the fdarray and the fdsets equal.  This
    patch removes fdtable->max_fdset.  As an added bonus, most of the supporting
    code becomes simpler.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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