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diff --git a/device/peer.go b/device/peer.go
index 8a8224c..19434cd 100644
--- a/device/peer.go
+++ b/device/peer.go
@@ -27,7 +27,11 @@ type Peer struct {
endpoint Endpoint
persistentKeepaliveInterval uint16
- // This must be 64-bit aligned, so make sure the above members come out to even alignment and pad accordingly
+ // These fields are accessed with atomic operations, which must be
+ // 64-bit aligned even on 32-bit platforms. Go guarantees that an
+ // allocated struct will be 64-bit aligned. So we place
+ // atomically-accessed fields up front, so that they can share in
+ // this alignment before smaller fields throw it off.
stats struct {
txBytes uint64 // bytes send to peer (endpoint)
rxBytes uint64 // bytes received from peer