Group some variables based on their sizes to reduce hole and avoid padding. On x86_64, this shrinks the size of 'struct virtqueue' from 72 to 68 bytes. It saves a few bytes of memory. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Using pahole Before: ====== struct virtqueue { struct list_head list; /* 0 16 */ void (*callback)(struct virtqueue *); /* 16 8 */ const char * name; /* 24 8 */ struct virtio_device * vdev; /* 32 8 */ unsigned int index; /* 40 4 */ unsigned int num_free; /* 44 4 */ unsigned int num_max; /* 48 4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ void * priv; /* 56 8 */ /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */ bool reset; /* 64 1 */ /* size: 72, cachelines: 2, members: 9 */ /* sum members: 61, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */ /* padding: 7 */ /* last cacheline: 8 bytes */ }; After: ===== struct virtqueue { struct list_head list; /* 0 16 */ void (*callback)(struct virtqueue *); /* 16 8 */ const char * name; /* 24 8 */ struct virtio_device * vdev; /* 32 8 */ unsigned int index; /* 40 4 */ unsigned int num_free; /* 44 4 */ unsigned int num_max; /* 48 4 */ bool reset; /* 52 1 */ /* XXX 3 bytes hole, try to pack */ void * priv; /* 56 8 */ /* size: 64, cachelines: 1, members: 9 */ /* sum members: 61, holes: 1, sum holes: 3 */ }; --- include/linux/virtio.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/virtio.h b/include/linux/virtio.h index 6ac2655500dc..9439ae898310 100644 --- a/include/linux/virtio.h +++ b/include/linux/virtio.h @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ struct virtqueue { unsigned int index; unsigned int num_free; unsigned int num_max; - void *priv; bool reset; + void *priv; }; int virtqueue_add_outbuf(struct virtqueue *vq, -- 2.34.1