Re: [PATCH] libata: reorder ata_queued_cmd to remove alignment paddingon 64 bit builds

[Jeff Garzik]

On 09/10/2010 07:19 AM, Richard Kennedy wrote:
> Reorder structure ata_queued_cmd to remove 8 bytes of alignment padding
> on 64 bit builds&  therefore reduce the size of structure ata_port by
> 256 bytes.
>
> Overall this will have little impact, other than reducing the amount of
> memory that is cleared when allocating ata_ports.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy<richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ----
> patch against 2.6.36-rc3
> compiled&  tested on x86_64
>
> I've been running this patch for a couple of weeks with no apparent
> issues.
>
> regards

applied


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