From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: + libata-reorder-ata_device-to-remove-8-bytes-of-padding-on-64-bits.patch added to -mm tree Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:48:17 -0700 Message-ID: <200808262248.m7QMmH8H031827@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60821 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751597AbYHZWtn (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:49:43 -0400 Sender: mm-commits-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org Cc: richard@rsk.demon.co.uk, jeff@garzik.org 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 Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: libata: reorder ata_device to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bits From: Richard Kennedy reduce size by 8 bytes from 1160 to 1152 allowing it to fit in 1 fewer cachelines. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy Cc: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 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