From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> 'struct bvec_iter' is embedded into 'struct bio', define it as packed so that we can get one extra 4bytes for other uses without expanding bio. 'struct bvec_iter' is often allocated on stack, so making it packed doesn't affect performance. Also I have run io_uring on both nvme/null_blk, and not observe performance effect in this way. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- include/linux/bvec.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/bvec.h b/include/linux/bvec.h index ff832e698efb..a0c4f41dfc83 100644 --- a/include/linux/bvec.h +++ b/include/linux/bvec.h @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct bvec_iter { unsigned int bi_bvec_done; /* number of bytes completed in current bvec */ -}; +} __packed; struct bvec_iter_all { struct bio_vec bv; -- 2.30.2