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From: Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear.com>
Subject: Re: [NETFILTER 42/69]: nf_conntrack: optimize hash_conntrack()
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:00:50 +1000
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David Miller wrote:
> But it still means the bit marked packed is going to be
> accessed using byte-at-a-time loads and stores.

That's not what my results showed (the bw() case).

> I guess this is immaterial, as it seems the memset() is the
> best solution anyways.

Yep.