diff --git a/src/runtime/runtime2.go b/src/runtime/runtime2.go
index 5bd283d12f..f5318e6f11 100644
--- a/src/runtime/runtime2.go
+++ b/src/runtime/runtime2.go
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 package runtime
 
 import (
-	"internal/cpu"
 	"runtime/internal/atomic"
 	"runtime/internal/sys"
 	"unsafe"
@@ -713,7 +712,8 @@ type p struct {
 	// scheduler ASAP (regardless of what G is running on it).
 	preempt bool
 
-	pad cpu.CacheLinePad
+	// Padding is no longer needed. False sharing is now not a worry because p is large enough
+	// that its size class is an integer multiple of the cache line size (for any of our architectures).
 }
 
 type schedt struct {