The recent change to use discrete integers instead of struct timespec64 shaved 8 bytes off of struct inode, but it also moves the i_lock into the previous cacheline, away from the fields that it protects. Move i_generation above the i_lock, which moves the new 4 byte hole to just after the i_fsnotify_mask in my setup. Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/fs.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 485b5e21c8e5..686c9f33e725 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -677,6 +677,7 @@ struct inode { u32 i_atime_nsec; u32 i_mtime_nsec; u32 i_ctime_nsec; + u32 i_generation; spinlock_t i_lock; /* i_blocks, i_bytes, maybe i_size */ unsigned short i_bytes; u8 i_blkbits; @@ -733,7 +734,6 @@ struct inode { unsigned i_dir_seq; }; - __u32 i_generation; #ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY __u32 i_fsnotify_mask; /* all events this inode cares about */ -- 2.41.0