+ fs-reorder-struct-inotify_device-on-64bits-to-remove-padding.patch added to -mm tree

+ fs-reorder-struct-inotify_device-on-64bits-to-remove-padding.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     fs: reorder struct inotify_device on 64bits to remove padding
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     fs-reorder-struct-inotify_device-on-64bits-to-remove-padding.patch

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Subject: fs: reorder struct inotify_device on 64bits to remove padding
From: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>

Reorder struct inotify_device to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64bit
builds, reducing size to 128 bytes.  Therefore allocating from a smaller
slab & using one fewer cachelines.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/inotify_user.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/inotify_user.c~fs-reorder-struct-inotify_device-on-64bits-to-remove-padding fs/inotify_user.c
--- a/fs/inotify_user.c~fs-reorder-struct-inotify_device-on-64bits-to-remove-padding
+++ a/fs/inotify_user.c
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ struct inotify_device {
 	struct mutex		ev_mutex;	/* protects event queue */
 	struct mutex		up_mutex;	/* synchronizes watch updates */
 	struct list_head 	events;		/* list of queued events */
-	atomic_t		count;		/* reference count */
 	struct user_struct	*user;		/* user who opened this dev */
 	struct inotify_handle	*ih;		/* inotify handle */
 	struct fasync_struct    *fa;            /* async notification */
+	atomic_t		count;		/* reference count */
 	unsigned int		queue_size;	/* size of the queue (bytes) */
 	unsigned int		event_count;	/* number of pending events */
 	unsigned int		max_events;	/* maximum number of events */
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard@rsk.demon.co.uk are

origin.patch
linux-next.patch
fs-reorder-struct-inotify_device-on-64bits-to-remove-padding.patch