On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Kieran Bingham <[email protected]> wrote: > The use of the packed attribute can cause a performance penalty for > all accesses to the struct members, as the compiler will assume that the > structure has the potential to have an unaligned base. > > These structures are all correctly aligned and contain no holes, thus > the attribute is redundant and negatively impacts performance, so we > remove the attributes entirely. > > Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
