[PATCH 15/18] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Reorder priv fields

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jun 13 03:03:58 PDT 2017


On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:00:38AM -0500, Ioana Radulescu wrote:
> Reorder fields in the device's private structure such that
> the ones most used on the hotpath are at the beginning of
> the structure.
> 
> This brings a small performance improvement due to better
> cache usage.

Really?  What kind of performance improvement?  Always be specific.

Please fix up and resend.

thanks,

greg k-h



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