From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: ak@muc.de, vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid gettimeofday when not needed
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:50:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040331195020.4fff9171.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <406B001A.1030901@candelatech.com>
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:30:02 -0800
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why not add a 32-bit field to the skb to handle various flag needs
> going forward?
That is what ->cb already is
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-31 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-31 12:01 [PATCH] Avoid gettimeofday when not needed Andi Kleen
2004-03-31 12:22 ` P
2004-03-31 13:53 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-31 13:45 ` Ville Nuorvala
2004-03-31 13:54 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-31 14:24 ` Ville Nuorvala
2004-03-31 15:10 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-31 17:30 ` Ben Greear
2004-03-31 17:50 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-03-31 18:53 ` Ben Greear
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