From: Herbert Xu on
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:02:28AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 10:32 +0100, Richard Kennedy wrote:
> > Re-order structure entropy_store to remove 8 bytes of padding on
> > 64 bit builds, so shrinking this structure from 72 to 64 bytes
> > and allowing it to fit into one cache line.
>
> I have a vague memory that we reordered things so that the r/w bits
> would be on a separate cache line than the r/o bits. But as we never
> added the alignment primitives to actually enforce that, I guess it
> doesn't matter much.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard(a)rsk.demon.co.uk>
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm(a)selenic.com>

Patch applied. Thanks!
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From: Herbert Xu on
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 08:36:32AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> Oops, I forgot to cc: you on this and Andrew queued it. Andrew, I've
> been queueing the RNG bits through Herbert's crypto tree lately.

I think Andrew's scripts are clever enough to remove patches
once they show up in another tree.

Cheers,
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