[dm-devel] [PATCH V6 02/12] block: define 'struct bvec_iter' as packed

[Ming Lei]

'struct bvec_iter' is embedded into 'struct bio', define it as packed
so that we can get one extra 4bytes for other uses without expanding
bio.

'struct bvec_iter' is often allocated on stack, so making it packed
doesn't affect performance. Also I have run io_uring on both
nvme/null_blk, and not observe performance effect in this way.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/bvec.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bvec.h b/include/linux/bvec.h
index ff832e698efb..a0c4f41dfc83 100644
--- a/include/linux/bvec.h
+++ b/include/linux/bvec.h
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct bvec_iter {
 
 	unsigned int            bi_bvec_done;	/* number of bytes completed in
 						   current bvec */
-};
+} __packed;
 
 struct bvec_iter_all {
 	struct bio_vec	bv;
-- 
2.29.2