Re: [PATCH 1/4] xfs: make i_flags and unsigned long

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:30:47AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 04:13:05PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > To be used for bit wakeup i_flags needs to be an unsigned long or we'll
> > run into trouble on big endian systems.  Beause of the 1-byte i_update
> > field right after it this actually causes a fairly large size increase
> > on it's own (4 or 7 bytes), but that increase will be more than offset
> > by the next two patches.
> 
> You could always make the i_update_core boolean a flag bit, and that
> growth will also go away. Regardless:

I could.  Then again I plan to kill it for 3.3, so re-arranging the
deck charis now might not be all that useful.