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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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

applied


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