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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid gettimeofday when not needed
Date: 31 Mar 2004 17:10:47 +0200
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:24:47PM +0300, Ville Nuorvala wrote:
> There just doesn't seem to be any general flag field in sk_buff that we
> might use at this moment. Should one be added, or should we just hide the
> flag inside the cb field using the likes of inet_skb_parm and
> inet6_skb_parm?

There are no free bits indeed. I think ->cb is the best choice then.


-Andi