netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: remove padding from struct socket on 64bit & increase objects/cache

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Message-Id: <20080708.030333.169790510.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:03:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	richard@....demon.co.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: remove padding from struct socket on 64bit &
 increase objects/cache

From: Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:58:10 +0100

> remove padding from struct socket reducing its size by 8 bytes.
>     
> This allows more objects/cache in sock_inode_cache
> 12 objects/cache when cacheline size is 128 (generic x86_64)
>     
> Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!
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