A previous change blindly added massive alignment to the call_single_data structure in struct request. This ballooned it in size from 296 to 320 bytes on my setup, for no valid reason at all. Use the unaligned struct __call_single_data variant instead. Fixes: 966a967116e69 ("smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data") Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 100d0df38026..0ce8a372d506 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ typedef __u32 __bitwise req_flags_t; struct request { struct list_head queuelist; union { - call_single_data_t csd; + struct __call_single_data csd; u64 fifo_time; }; -- Jens Axboe