diff --git a/tracing-core/Cargo.toml b/tracing-core/Cargo.toml
index 3f40649c0a..306d1c7aeb 100644
--- a/tracing-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tracing-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ name = "tracing-core"
 #   - README.md
 # - Update CHANGELOG.md.
 # - Create "v0.1.x" git tag.
-version = "0.1.16"
+version = "0.1.17"
 authors = ["Tokio Contributors <team@tokio.rs>"]
 license = "MIT"
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/tracing-core/src/metadata.rs b/tracing-core/src/metadata.rs
index c575a55b45..fe67bcfcd8 100644
--- a/tracing-core/src/metadata.rs
+++ b/tracing-core/src/metadata.rs
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ pub struct Metadata<'a> {
 pub struct Kind(KindInner);
 
 /// Describes the level of verbosity of a span or event.
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub struct Level(LevelInner);
 
 /// A filter comparable to a verbosity `Level`.
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ pub struct Level(LevelInner);
 /// addition of an `OFF` level that completely disables all trace
 /// instrumentation.
 #[repr(transparent)]
-#[derive(Clone, Eq, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Eq, PartialEq)]
 pub struct LevelFilter(Option<Level>);
 
 /// Indicates that a string could not be parsed to a valid level.
@@ -858,13 +858,13 @@ mod tests {
             (LevelFilter::DEBUG, LevelInner::Debug as usize),
             (LevelFilter::TRACE, LevelInner::Trace as usize),
         ];
-        for &(ref filter, expected) in &mapping {
+        for &(filter, expected) in &mapping {
             let repr = unsafe {
                 // safety: The entire purpose of this test is to assert that the
                 // actual repr matches what we expect it to be --- we're testing
                 // that *other* unsafe code is sound using the transmuted value.
                 // We're not going to do anything with it that might be unsound.
-                mem::transmute::<_, usize>(filter.clone())
+                mem::transmute::<LevelFilter, usize>(filter)
             };
             assert_eq!(expected, repr, "repr changed for {:?}", filter)
         }
diff --git a/tracing-log/Cargo.toml b/tracing-log/Cargo.toml
index 9eb60a92ac..b86910c9db 100644
--- a/tracing-log/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tracing-log/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ log-tracer = []
 trace-logger = []
 
 [dependencies]
-tracing-core = { path = "../tracing-core", version = "0.1.2"}
+tracing-core = { path = "../tracing-core", version = "0.1.17"}
 log = { version = "0.4" }
 lazy_static = "1.3.0"
 env_logger = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
diff --git a/tracing-log/src/lib.rs b/tracing-log/src/lib.rs
index c4cf239dcc..75b1106c59 100644
--- a/tracing-log/src/lib.rs
+++ b/tracing-log/src/lib.rs
@@ -310,8 +310,8 @@ lazy_static! {
     static ref ERROR_FIELDS: Fields = Fields::new(ERROR_CS);
 }
 
-fn level_to_cs(level: &Level) -> (&'static dyn Callsite, &'static Fields) {
-    match *level {
+fn level_to_cs(level: Level) -> (&'static dyn Callsite, &'static Fields) {
+    match level {
         Level::TRACE => (TRACE_CS, &*TRACE_FIELDS),
         Level::DEBUG => (DEBUG_CS, &*DEBUG_FIELDS),
         Level::INFO => (INFO_CS, &*INFO_FIELDS),
@@ -415,13 +415,13 @@ impl<'a> NormalizeEvent<'a> for Event<'a> {
     fn normalized_metadata(&'a self) -> Option<Metadata<'a>> {
         let original = self.metadata();
         if self.is_log() {
-            let mut fields = LogVisitor::new_for(self, level_to_cs(original.level()).1);
+            let mut fields = LogVisitor::new_for(self, level_to_cs(*original.level()).1);
             self.record(&mut fields);
 
             Some(Metadata::new(
                 "log event",
                 fields.target.unwrap_or("log"),
-                original.level().clone(),
+                *original.level(),
                 fields.file,
                 fields.line.map(|l| l as u32),
                 fields.module_path,
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ impl<'a> NormalizeEvent<'a> for Event<'a> {
     }
 
     fn is_log(&self) -> bool {
-        self.metadata().callsite() == identify_callsite!(level_to_cs(self.metadata().level()).0)
+        self.metadata().callsite() == identify_callsite!(level_to_cs(*self.metadata().level()).0)
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/tracing-log/tests/log_tracer.rs b/tracing-log/tests/log_tracer.rs
index 136ba74d4e..c8589e83b1 100644
--- a/tracing-log/tests/log_tracer.rs
+++ b/tracing-log/tests/log_tracer.rs
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ impl Subscriber for TestSubscriber {
             event.normalized_metadata().map(|normalized| OwnedMetadata {
                 name: normalized.name().to_string(),
                 target: normalized.target().to_string(),
-                level: normalized.level().clone(),
+                level: *normalized.level(),
                 module_path: normalized.module_path().map(String::from),
                 file: normalized.file().map(String::from),
                 line: normalized.line(),
diff --git a/tracing-subscriber/Cargo.toml b/tracing-subscriber/Cargo.toml
index b1bb448d44..18eeb34368 100644
--- a/tracing-subscriber/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tracing-subscriber/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ registry = ["sharded-slab", "thread_local"]
 json = ["tracing-serde", "serde", "serde_json"]
 
 [dependencies]
-tracing-core = { path = "../tracing-core", version = "0.1.16" }
+tracing-core = { path = "../tracing-core", version = "0.1.17" }
 
 # only required by the filter feature
 matchers = { optional = true, version = "0.0.1" }
diff --git a/tracing-subscriber/src/filter/env/directive.rs b/tracing-subscriber/src/filter/env/directive.rs
index de8019437b..5c1db8a13b 100644
--- a/tracing-subscriber/src/filter/env/directive.rs
+++ b/tracing-subscriber/src/filter/env/directive.rs
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ impl Directive {
         Some(StaticDirective {
             target: self.target.clone(),
             field_names,
-            level: self.level.clone(),
+            level: self.level,
         })
     }
 
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ impl Directive {
             .ok()?;
         Some(field::CallsiteMatch {
             fields,
-            level: self.level.clone(),
+            level: self.level,
         })
     }
 
@@ -417,9 +417,9 @@ impl<T: Match + Ord> DirectiveSet<T> {
     pub(crate) fn add(&mut self, directive: T) {
         // does this directive enable a more verbose level than the current
         // max? if so, update the max level.
-        let level = directive.level();
-        if *level > self.max_level {
-            self.max_level = level.clone();
+        let level = *directive.level();
+        if level > self.max_level {
+            self.max_level = level;
         }
         // insert the directive into the vec of directives, ordered by
         // specificity (length of target + number of field filters). this
@@ -460,8 +460,8 @@ impl Dynamics {
                     return Some(f);
                 }
                 match base_level {
-                    Some(ref b) if d.level > *b => base_level = Some(d.level.clone()),
-                    None => base_level = Some(d.level.clone()),
+                    Some(ref b) if d.level > *b => base_level = Some(d.level),
+                    None => base_level = Some(d.level),
                     _ => {}
                 }
                 None
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ impl CallsiteMatcher {
             .collect();
         SpanMatcher {
             field_matches,
-            base_level: self.base_level.clone(),
+            base_level: self.base_level,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ impl SpanMatcher {
             .iter()
             .filter_map(field::SpanMatch::filter)
             .max()
-            .unwrap_or_else(|| self.base_level.clone())
+            .unwrap_or(self.base_level)
     }
 
     pub(crate) fn record_update(&self, record: &span::Record<'_>) {
diff --git a/tracing-subscriber/src/filter/env/field.rs b/tracing-subscriber/src/filter/env/field.rs
index 1daf4fc984..521780d5b9 100644
--- a/tracing-subscriber/src/filter/env/field.rs
+++ b/tracing-subscriber/src/filter/env/field.rs
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ impl CallsiteMatch {
             .collect();
         SpanMatch {
             fields,
-            level: self.level.clone(),
+            level: self.level,
             has_matched: AtomicBool::new(false),
         }
     }
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ impl SpanMatch {
     #[inline]
     pub(crate) fn filter(&self) -> Option<LevelFilter> {
         if self.is_matched() {
-            Some(self.level.clone())
+            Some(self.level)
         } else {
             None
         }
diff --git a/tracing/Cargo.toml b/tracing/Cargo.toml
index d326602497..cbf822328c 100644
--- a/tracing/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tracing/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ keywords = ["logging", "tracing", "metrics", "async"]
 edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
-tracing-core = { path = "../tracing-core", version = "0.1.15", default-features = false }
+tracing-core = { path = "../tracing-core", version = "0.1.17", default-features = false }
 log = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
 tracing-attributes = { path = "../tracing-attributes", version = "0.1.10", optional = true }
 cfg-if = "0.1.10"
diff --git a/tracing/src/macros.rs b/tracing/src/macros.rs
index 6d2c1707db..3222abb741 100644
--- a/tracing/src/macros.rs
+++ b/tracing/src/macros.rs
@@ -2150,7 +2150,7 @@ macro_rules! fieldset {
 #[macro_export]
 macro_rules! level_to_log {
     ($level:expr) => {
-        match *$level {
+        match $level {
             $crate::Level::ERROR => $crate::log::Level::Error,
             $crate::Level::WARN => $crate::log::Level::Warn,
             $crate::Level::INFO => $crate::log::Level::Info,
@@ -2297,7 +2297,7 @@ macro_rules! __tracing_log {
     (target: $target:expr, $level:expr, $($field:tt)+ ) => {
         $crate::if_log_enabled! {{
             use $crate::log;
-            let level = $crate::level_to_log!(&$level);
+            let level = $crate::level_to_log!($level);
             if level <= log::STATIC_MAX_LEVEL && level <= log::max_level() {
                 let log_meta = log::Metadata::builder()
                     .level(level)
diff --git a/tracing/src/span.rs b/tracing/src/span.rs
index 03768fd626..e3b2bdff98 100644
--- a/tracing/src/span.rs
+++ b/tracing/src/span.rs
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ impl Span {
             } else {
                 meta.target()
             };
-            span.log(target, level_to_log!(meta.level()), format_args!("++ {}{}", meta.name(), FmtAttrs(attrs)));
+            span.log(target, level_to_log!(*meta.level()), format_args!("++ {}{}", meta.name(), FmtAttrs(attrs)));
         }}
 
         span
@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ impl Span {
                 } else {
                     meta.target()
                 };
-                self.log(target, level_to_log!(meta.level()), format_args!("{}{}", meta.name(), FmtValues(&record)));
+                self.log(target, level_to_log!(*meta.level()), format_args!("{}{}", meta.name(), FmtValues(&record)));
             }
         }}
 
@@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@ impl Span {
     #[inline]
     fn log(&self, target: &str, level: log::Level, message: fmt::Arguments<'_>) {
         if let Some(ref meta) = self.meta {
-            if level_to_log!(meta.level()) <= log::max_level() {
+            if level_to_log!(*meta.level()) <= log::max_level() {
                 let logger = log::logger();
                 let log_meta = log::Metadata::builder().level(level).target(target).build();
                 if logger.enabled(&log_meta) {
diff --git a/tracing/tests/support/subscriber.rs b/tracing/tests/support/subscriber.rs
index 3f90e8daf9..83f1139849 100644
--- a/tracing/tests/support/subscriber.rs
+++ b/tracing/tests/support/subscriber.rs
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ where
         }
     }
     fn max_level_hint(&self) -> Option<LevelFilter> {
-        self.max_level.clone()
+        self.max_level
     }
 
     fn record(&self, id: &Id, values: &span::Record<'_>) {