[PATCH 1/2] Audit: reorganize struct audit_watch to save 8 bytes

Eric Paris eparis at redhat.com
Fri Aug 7 20:54:23 UTC 2009


pahole showed that struct audit_watch had two holes:

struct audit_watch {
        atomic_t                   count;                /*     0     4 */

        /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

        char *                     path;                 /*     8     8 */
        dev_t                      dev;                  /*    16     4 */

        /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

        long unsigned int          ino;                  /*    24     8 */
        struct audit_parent *      parent;               /*    32     8 */
        struct list_head           wlist;                /*    40    16 */
        struct list_head           rules;                /*    56    16 */
        /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */

        /* size: 72, cachelines: 2, members: 7 */
        /* sum members: 64, holes: 2, sum holes: 8 */
        /* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
};      /* definitions: 1 */

by moving dev after count we save 8 bytes,  actually improving cacheline
usage.  There are typically very few of these in the kernel so it won't be
a large savings, but it's a good thing no matter what.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis at redhat.com>
---

 kernel/audit_watch.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit_watch.c b/kernel/audit_watch.c
index cfaa248..aa8babc 100644
--- a/kernel/audit_watch.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_watch.c
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
 
 struct audit_watch {
 	atomic_t		count;	/* reference count */
-	char			*path;	/* insertion path */
 	dev_t			dev;	/* associated superblock device */
+	char			*path;	/* insertion path */
 	unsigned long		ino;	/* associated inode number */
 	struct audit_parent	*parent; /* associated parent */
 	struct list_head	wlist;	/* entry in parent->watches list */




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