From: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Move the security related fields above the u8s to eliminate a hole in the struct. pahole before: struct ib_mad_agent { ... u32 hi_tid; /* 48 4 */ u32 flags; /* 52 4 */ u8 port_num; /* 56 1 */ u8 rmpp_version; /* 57 1 */ /* XXX 6 bytes hole, try to pack */ /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */ void * security; /* 64 8 */ bool smp_allowed; /* 72 1 */ bool lsm_nb_reg; /* 73 1 */ /* XXX 6 bytes hole, try to pack */ struct notifier_block lsm_nb; /* 80 24 */ /* XXX last struct has 4 bytes of padding */ /* size: 104, cachelines: 2, members: 14 */ ... }; pahole after: struct ib_mad_agent { ... u32 hi_tid; /* 48 4 */ u32 flags; /* 52 4 */ void * security; /* 56 8 */ /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */ struct notifier_block lsm_nb; /* 64 24 */ /* XXX last struct has 4 bytes of padding */ u8 port_num; /* 88 1 */ u8 rmpp_version; /* 89 1 */ bool smp_allowed; /* 90 1 */ bool lsm_nb_reg; /* 91 1 */ /* size: 96, cachelines: 2, members: 14 */ ... }; Signed-off-by: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/rdma/ib_mad.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_mad.h b/include/rdma/ib_mad.h index fdef558e3a2d..1c0b914f199d 100644 --- a/include/rdma/ib_mad.h +++ b/include/rdma/ib_mad.h @@ -616,12 +616,12 @@ struct ib_mad_agent { void *context; u32 hi_tid; u32 flags; + void *security; + struct notifier_block lsm_nb; u8 port_num; u8 rmpp_version; - void *security; bool smp_allowed; bool lsm_nb_reg; - struct notifier_block lsm_nb; }; /** -- 2.19.1