Re: [PATCH] scheduler: reorder task_struct to reduce padding on64bit builds

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri May 16 2008 - 07:52:30 EST



* Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch removes 24 bytes of padding and allows 1 extra object per
> slab on my fedora based config. Patch against 2.6.26-rc2 & running
> successfully on my AMD 64 desktop machine.

applied, thanks. Nice patch - task_struct hasnt been field-ordering
optimized for quite some time.

Ingo
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