Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:13:19 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] libata: reorder ata_queued_cmd to remove alignment padding on 64 bit builds |
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On 09/10/2010 07:19 AM, Richard Kennedy wrote: > Reorder structure ata_queued_cmd to remove 8 bytes of alignment padding > on 64 bit builds& therefore reduce the size of structure ata_port by > 256 bytes. > > Overall this will have little impact, other than reducing the amount of > memory that is cleared when allocating ata_ports. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy<richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> > ---- > patch against 2.6.36-rc3 > compiled& tested on x86_64 > > I've been running this patch for a couple of weeks with no apparent > issues. > > regards
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