[tip:perf/core] perf: Remove 64-bit alignment padding from perf_event_context

From: tip-bot for Richard Kennedy
Date: Fri Jul 01 2011 - 11:19:27 EST


Commit-ID: 28009ce4a8130af7260a9271901b4419834ad152
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/28009ce4a8130af7260a9271901b4419834ad152
Author: Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:33:38 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 11:06:32 +0200

perf: Remove 64-bit alignment padding from perf_event_context

Reorder perf_event_context to remove 8 bytes of 64 bit alignment padding
shrinking its size to 192 bytes, allowing it to fit into a smaller slab
and use one fewer cache lines.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307460819.1950.5.camel@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/perf_event.h | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index e76a410..2f7b5d4 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -894,8 +894,8 @@ struct perf_event_context {
u64 parent_gen;
u64 generation;
int pin_count;
- struct rcu_head rcu_head;
int nr_cgroups; /* cgroup events present */
+ struct rcu_head rcu_head;
};

/*
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