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From: Patrick Schaaf <bof@bof.de>
Subject: Re: ip_conntrack_hash() problem
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:39:32 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 11:32:26PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    
>    So, I don't see how your (abstractly true) observation is relevant, here.
>    
> So we waste 4 bytes in the kernel for really no reason?
> A value we can compute in half a cycle?

Sorry, but I was under the impression that code readability was worth
the occasional static-global additional 4 bytes. I must have been
mistaken.

best regards
  Patrick