From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 16:12:45 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: nfs: remove fileid field from struct nfs_inode
X-Git-Tag: v7.2-rc1~46^2~38
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd5e6b056bd0900d8efde90da7a5877dc50842c7;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

nfs: remove fileid field from struct nfs_inode

Now that all NFS client code uses inode->i_ino directly to store and
access the 64-bit NFS fileid, the separate fileid field in struct
nfs_inode is unused. Remove it to save 8 bytes per NFS inode.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@hammerspace.com>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
index 83063f4ab4880..ec17e602c979c 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
@@ -145,11 +145,6 @@ struct nfs4_xattr_cache;
  * nfs fs inode data in memory
  */
 struct nfs_inode {
-	/*
-	 * The 64bit 'inode number'
-	 */
-	__u64 fileid;
-
 	/*
 	 * NFS file handle
 	 */