linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] random: reorder struct entropy

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Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:02:28 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: reorder struct entropy_store to remove padding
 on 64bits

On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 10:32 +0100, Richard Kennedy wrote:
> Re-order structure entropy_store to remove 8 bytes of padding on
> 64 bit builds, so shrinking this structure from 72 to 64 bytes
> and allowing it to fit into one cache line.

I have a vague memory that we reordered things so that the r/w bits
would be on a separate cache line than the r/o bits. But as we never
added the alignment primitives to actually enforce that, I guess it
doesn't matter much. 

> Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>

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