Group some variables based on their sizes to reduce hole and avoid padding. On x86_64, this shrinks the size of 'struct mctp_route' from 72 to 64 bytes. It saves a few bytes of memory and is more cache-line friendly. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Using pahole Before: ====== struct mctp_route { mctp_eid_t min; /* 0 1 */ mctp_eid_t max; /* 1 1 */ /* XXX 6 bytes hole, try to pack */ struct mctp_dev * dev; /* 8 8 */ unsigned int mtu; /* 16 4 */ unsigned char type; /* 20 1 */ /* XXX 3 bytes hole, try to pack */ int (*output)(struct mctp_route *, struct sk_buff *); /* 24 8 */ struct list_head list; /* 32 16 */ refcount_t refs; /* 48 4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ struct callback_head rcu __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /* 56 16 */ /* size: 72, cachelines: 2, members: 9 */ /* sum members: 59, holes: 3, sum holes: 13 */ /* forced alignments: 1, forced holes: 1, sum forced holes: 4 */ /* last cacheline: 8 bytes */ } __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); After: ===== struct mctp_route { mctp_eid_t min; /* 0 1 */ mctp_eid_t max; /* 1 1 */ unsigned char type; /* 2 1 */ /* XXX 1 byte hole, try to pack */ unsigned int mtu; /* 4 4 */ struct mctp_dev * dev; /* 8 8 */ int (*output)(struct mctp_route *, struct sk_buff *); /* 16 8 */ struct list_head list; /* 24 16 */ refcount_t refs; /* 40 4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ struct callback_head rcu __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /* 48 16 */ /* size: 64, cachelines: 1, members: 9 */ /* sum members: 59, holes: 2, sum holes: 5 */ /* forced alignments: 1, forced holes: 1, sum forced holes: 4 */ } __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); --- include/net/mctp.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/net/mctp.h b/include/net/mctp.h index 82800d521c3d..da86e106c91d 100644 --- a/include/net/mctp.h +++ b/include/net/mctp.h @@ -234,9 +234,9 @@ struct mctp_flow { struct mctp_route { mctp_eid_t min, max; - struct mctp_dev *dev; - unsigned int mtu; unsigned char type; + unsigned int mtu; + struct mctp_dev *dev; int (*output)(struct mctp_route *route, struct sk_buff *skb); -- 2.34.1