From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:57:34 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120425135734.GA4995@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1335361985.1885.16.camel@castor.rsk>
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 02:53:05PM +0100, Richard Kennedy wrote:
> Reorder structure writeback_control to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64
> bit builds, this shrinks its size from 48 to 40 bytes.
>
> This structure is always on the stack and uses C99 named initialisation,
> so should be safe and have a small impact on stack usage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
>
> --
>
> patch against v3.4-rc4
> compiled and tested on x86_64
>
> I've been running my desktop with this patch applied for several days
> and have not seen any problems.
> regards
> Richard
Applied, thanks!
Fengguang
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2012-04-25 13:53 [PATCH] fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds Richard Kennedy
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