Re: [Patch 4/5] Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation & Netlink protocol

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:21:07 -0500

> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:19:09PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > Hi Neil.
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 12:04:35PM -0500, Neil Horman (nhorman@tuxdriver.com) wrote:
> > > +typedef enum {
> > > +	NET_DM_CFG_VERSION = 0,
> > > +	NET_DM_CFG_ALERT_COUNT,
> > > +	NET_DM_CFG_ALERT_DELAY,
> > > +	NET_DM_CFG_MAX,
> > > +} config_type_t;
> > > +
> > > +struct net_dm_config_entry {
> > > +	config_type_t type;
> > > +	uint64_t data;
> > > +};
> > > +
> > 
> > Ugh, please add either some comments about its alignment or some padding
> > fields.
> > 
> Yeah, I probably should align that to 64 bit boundaries for performance, thanks!

Actually you should use "aligned_u64" otherwise there will be
compat issues on 32-bit x86 on x86_64/ia64 since 32-bit x86
only 4-byte aligns 64-bit objects unless told otherwise.

And using anon-fixed type like an enum for "type" is also
likely not such a good idea.  I would just use a __u32
and some defines instead.