linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits

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Message-ID: <20100319075754.GN5768@kernel.dk>
Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:57:54 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request
	on  64bits

On Thu, Mar 18 2010, Richard Kennedy wrote:
> Remove alignment padding to shrink struct request from 336 to 320 bytes
> so needing one fewer cacheline and therefore removing 48 bytes from
> struct request_queue.

Thanks Richard, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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