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From: Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw-HFFVJYpyMKqzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 08/14] net: wireless: mac80211: shrink ieee80211_tx_info
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 19:53:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1425322425.1906.4.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425318028-26531-9-git-send-email-fw-HFFVJYpyMKqzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org> (sfid-20150302_184059_463522_70F2B3E8)

On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 18:40 +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> to make it fit into (future) 44-byte sized skb->cb[].
> 
> This works, since flags is only used to store values
> from mac80211_tx_control_flags enum, and these are just 2 bits.
> We can thus move this to the padding hole inside the union.
> 
> Also add BUILD_BUG_ON magic to make sure that the new flags
> field doesn't share storage w. other members of the union.

This is really ugly - what's the point of this?

Mind you - we are actually acutely out of space and would rather have
*more*, not less.

johannes

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-02 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-02 17:40 [PATCH RFC 00/14] shrink skb cb to 44 bytes Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 01/14] net: gro: shrink napi_gro_cb to fit into hypothetical 44-byte sized skb cb Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 02/14] net: sched: reduce qdisc size to 24 byte Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 03/14] ipv6: use flag instead of u16 for hop in inet6_skb_parm Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 04/14] drivers: wireless: rt2x00: move skb_dma to queue entry Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 05/14] drivers: wireless: ar5523: use container_of Florian Westphal
2015-03-03  9:16   ` Pontus Fuchs
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 06/14] drivers: wireless: carl9170: shrink carl9170_tx_info Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 07/14] net: wireless: iwlwifi: shrink status private area Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 08/14] net: wireless: mac80211: shrink ieee80211_tx_info Florian Westphal
     [not found]   ` <1425318028-26531-9-git-send-email-fw-HFFVJYpyMKqzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-02 18:53     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-03-02 19:03       ` Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 19:18         ` Johannes Berg
     [not found]           ` <1425323929.1906.12.camel-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-02 19:30             ` Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 09/14] net: wireless: mac80211: shrink private driver area Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 18:52   ` Johannes Berg
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 10/14] dccp: keep failed options on stack Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 11/14] dccp: reduce size of dccp_skb_cb to 40 bytes Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 12/14] rxrpc: use 32bit jiffies on 64bit platforms, too Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 13/14] net: tcp: don't assert sock_skb_cb_check_size Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 17:40 ` [PATCH RFC 14/14] net: introduce and use KERNEL_MAX_HEADER_PARSE_ADDRLEN Florian Westphal
2015-03-03 17:03   ` Willem de Bruijn
2015-03-03 17:11     ` Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 19:49 ` [PATCH RFC 00/14] shrink skb cb to 44 bytes Eric Dumazet
     [not found]   ` <1425325763.5130.123.camel-XN9IlZ5yJG9HTL0Zs8A6p/gx64E7kk8eUsxypvmhUTTZJqsBc5GL+g@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-02 20:42     ` Florian Westphal
2015-03-02 21:56       ` Eric Dumazet
2015-03-02 22:17   ` David Miller
2015-03-03  4:02     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-03-03  4:05       ` David Miller
2015-03-03 11:43         ` Florian Westphal

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