# \[PATCH 13/16\] block: define 'struct bvec\_iter' as packed

- From: Christoph Hellwig \<hch@lst.de\>
- Date: 2021-10-12 11:32:39 
- List: linux-block
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-block/2021/10/215762
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-block/2021/10/215748/t.md

```text
From: Ming Lei <redacted>

'struct bvec_iter' is embedded into 'struct bio', define it as packed
so that we can get one extra 4bytes for other uses without expanding
bio.

'struct bvec_iter' is often allocated on stack, so making it packed
doesn't affect performance. Also I have run io_uring on both
nvme/null_blk, and not observe performance effect in this way.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Mark Wunderlich <redacted>
---
 include/linux/bvec.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bvec.h b/include/linux/bvec.h
index 0e9bdd42dafb6..35c25dff651a5 100644
--- a/include/linux/bvec.h
+++ b/include/linux/bvec.h
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ struct bvec_iter {
 
 	unsigned int            bi_bvec_done;	/* number of bytes completed in
 						   current bvec */
-};
+} __packed;
 
 struct bvec_iter_all {
 	struct bio_vec	bv;
-- 
2.30.2

```