+ libata-reorder-ata_device-to-remove-8-bytes-of-padding-on-64-bits.patch added to -mm tree

+ libata-reorder-ata_device-to-remove-8-bytes-of-padding-on-64-bits.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     libata: reorder ata_device to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bits
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     libata-reorder-ata_device-to-remove-8-bytes-of-padding-on-64-bits.patch

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Subject: libata: reorder ata_device to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bits
From: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>

reduce size by 8 bytes from 1160 to 1152 allowing it to fit in 1 fewer
cachelines.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/libata.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN include/linux/libata.h~libata-reorder-ata_device-to-remove-8-bytes-of-padding-on-64-bits include/linux/libata.h
--- a/include/linux/libata.h~libata-reorder-ata_device-to-remove-8-bytes-of-padding-on-64-bits
+++ a/include/linux/libata.h
@@ -554,8 +554,8 @@ struct ata_ering {
 struct ata_device {
 	struct ata_link		*link;
 	unsigned int		devno;		/* 0 or 1 */
-	unsigned long		flags;		/* ATA_DFLAG_xxx */
 	unsigned int		horkage;	/* List of broken features */
+	unsigned long		flags;		/* ATA_DFLAG_xxx */
 	struct scsi_device	*sdev;		/* attached SCSI device */
 #ifdef CONFIG_ATA_ACPI
 	acpi_handle		acpi_handle;
_

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

linux-next.patch
hrtimer-reorder-struct-hrtimer-to-save-8-bytes-on-64-bit-builds.patch
libata-reorder-ata_device-to-remove-8-bytes-of-padding-on-64-bits.patch