From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 1/3] net: dcb: match dcb_app protocol field with 802.1Qaz spec
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:39:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4DA760.6090204@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110131.204104.226756946.davem@davemloft.net>
On 1/31/2011 8:41 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:00:49 -0800
>
>> The dcb_app protocol field is a __u32 however the 802.1Qaz
>> specification defines it as a 16 bit field. This patch brings
>> the structure inline with the spec making it a __u16.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
> ...
>> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ struct ieee_pfc {
>> */
>> struct dcb_app {
>> __u8 selector;
>> - __u32 protocol;
>> + __u16 protocol;
>> __u8 priority;
>> };
>>
>
> If we're going to do this, please fix this wasteful structure
> layout. Put the "protocol" either first, or last, so that the
> structure size is 4 bytes, rather than something like 8.
OK I will fix this. Thanks
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-05 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-31 22:00 [net-2.6 PATCH 1/3] net: dcb: match dcb_app protocol field with 802.1Qaz spec John Fastabend
2011-01-31 22:00 ` [net-2.6 PATCH 2/3] net: dcb: use _safe() version of list iterators John Fastabend
2011-02-01 4:42 ` David Miller
2011-02-05 19:40 ` John Fastabend
2011-01-31 22:00 ` [net-2.6 PATCH 3/3] net: dcb: application priority is per net_device John Fastabend
2011-02-01 4:43 ` David Miller
2011-02-13 19:03 ` David Miller
2011-02-01 4:41 ` [net-2.6 PATCH 1/3] net: dcb: match dcb_app protocol field with 802.1Qaz spec David Miller
2011-02-05 19:39 ` John Fastabend [this message]
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