Re: [RFC PATCH 02/12] net: infrastructure for hardware time stamping

Patrick Ohly
2008-12-16T07:57:21Z

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 21:53 +0000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> wrote:
> > @@ -305,6 +406,8 @@ struct sk_buff {
> > ipvs_property:1,
> > peeked:1,
> > nf_trace:1;
> > + /* not all of the bits in optional are used */
> > + __u8 optional;
> > __be16 protocol;
>
> You do reliase that this is going to grow the sk_buff by at least
> 4 bytes and not 1?

Yes. I should have been more explicit about that when talking about
"adding one byte". At least it's better than adding 8 bytes of
additional data, as in the previous patch.

I haven't checked it, but was told that sk_buff is already tightly
packed. It didn't look like there was a better place to put the byte
either.

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