The patch titled sched: reorder struct sched_rt_entity to remove padding on 64 bit builds has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is sched-reorder-struct-sched_rt_entity-to-remove-padding-on-64-bit-builds.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: sched: reorder struct sched_rt_entity to remove padding on 64 bit builds From: Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds (also removes 8 bytes from task_struct) Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/sched.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/sched.h~sched-reorder-struct-sched_rt_entity-to-remove-padding-on-64-bit-builds include/linux/sched.h --- a/include/linux/sched.h~sched-reorder-struct-sched_rt_entity-to-remove-padding-on-64-bit-builds +++ a/include/linux/sched.h @@ -974,8 +974,8 @@ struct sched_entity { struct sched_rt_entity { struct list_head run_list; - unsigned int time_slice; unsigned long timeout; + unsigned int time_slice; int nr_cpus_allowed; struct sched_rt_entity *back; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are hrtimer-reorder-struct-hrtimer-to-save-8-bytes-on-64-bit-builds.patch sched-reorder-signal_struct-to-remove-8-bytes-on-64-bit-builds.patch sched-reorder-struct-sched_rt_entity-to-remove-padding-on-64-bit-builds.patch reorder-struct-prop_local_single-to-remove-padding-on-64-bit-builds.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html