From: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
To: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: [PATCH] reorder struct prop_local_single to remove padding on 64 bit builds
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:36:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217594188.2953.24.camel@castor.localdomain> (raw)
reorder structure to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds
(also removes 8 bytes from task_struct)
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
---
patch against 2.6.27-rc1
compiled & tested on AMD64 desktop
Richard
include/linux/proportions.h | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/proportions.h b/include/linux/proportions.h
index 5afc1b2..cf793bb 100644
--- a/include/linux/proportions.h
+++ b/include/linux/proportions.h
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ struct prop_local_single {
* snapshot of the last seen global state
* and a lock protecting this state
*/
- int shift;
unsigned long period;
+ int shift;
spinlock_t lock; /* protect the snapshot state */
};
--
1.5.5.1
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2008-08-01 12:36 Richard Kennedy [this message]
2008-08-15 15:15 ` Ingo Molnar
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