linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] can: raw: reorder struct uniqframe's members to optimise packing

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Message-Id: <20250915-can-raw-repack-v1-1-5ea293bc6d33@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:23:13 +0900
From: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@...nel.org>
To: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>, 
 Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
Cc: linux-can@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] can: raw: reorder struct uniqframe's members to
 optimise packing

struct uniqframe has one hole. Reorder the fields to save 8 bytes.

Statistics before:

  $ pahole --class_name=uniqframe net/can/raw.o
  struct uniqframe {
  	int                        skbcnt;               /*     0     4 */

  	/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

  	const struct sk_buff  *    skb;                  /*     8     8 */
  	unsigned int               join_rx_count;        /*    16     4 */

  	/* size: 24, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */
  	/* sum members: 16, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */
  	/* padding: 4 */
  	/* last cacheline: 24 bytes */
  };

...and after:

  $ pahole --class_name=uniqframe net/can/raw.o
  struct uniqframe {
  	const struct sk_buff  *    skb;                  /*     0     8 */
  	int                        skbcnt;               /*     8     4 */
  	unsigned int               join_rx_count;        /*    12     4 */

  	/* size: 16, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */
  	/* last cacheline: 16 bytes */
  };

Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@...nel.org>
---
 net/can/raw.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/can/raw.c b/net/can/raw.c
index 76b867d21def209f5c6d236604c0e434a1c55a4d..db21d8a8c54d1b6a25a72c7a9d11d5c94f3187b5 100644
--- a/net/can/raw.c
+++ b/net/can/raw.c
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ MODULE_ALIAS("can-proto-1");
  */
 
 struct uniqframe {
-	int skbcnt;
 	const struct sk_buff *skb;
+	int skbcnt;
 	unsigned int join_rx_count;
 };
 

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