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

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Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:32:01 +0100
From:	Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] random: reorder struct entropy_store to remove padding on
 64bits

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.

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

---
patch against v2.6.35-rc6
built & tested on x86_64

regards
Richard



diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 8d85587..caef35a 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -407,8 +407,8 @@ struct entropy_store {
 	struct poolinfo *poolinfo;
 	__u32 *pool;
 	const char *name;
-	int limit;
 	struct entropy_store *pull;
+	int limit;
 
 	/* read-write data: */
 	spinlock_t lock;


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