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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: apetlund@simula.no
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@vyatta.com,
	william.allen.simpson@gmail.com, damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de,
	ebiederm@xmission.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v4 2/3] net: TCP thin linear timeouts
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:32:55 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100217.163255.133898079.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B7AAE69.8020701@simula.no>

From: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:40:41 +0100

> @@ -341,6 +342,8 @@ struct tcp_sock {
>  	u16	advmss;		/* Advertised MSS			*/
>  	u8	frto_counter;	/* Number of new acks after RTO */
>  	u8	nonagle;	/* Disable Nagle algorithm?             */
> +	u8      thin_lto    : 1,/* Use linear timeouts for thin streams */
> +		thin_undef  : 7;
>  

There is now a gap of 3 unused bytes here in this critical
core TCP socket data structure.

Please either find a way to avoid this hole, or document
it with a comment.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-18  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-16 14:40 [net-next PATCH v4 2/3] net: TCP thin linear timeouts Andreas Petlund
2010-02-18  0:32 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-02-18  8:41   ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-02-18  8:44     ` Andreas Petlund
2010-02-18  9:01       ` Franco Fichtner
2010-02-18  9:09         ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-02-18  9:18           ` Andreas Petlund
2010-02-18  9:24             ` Ilpo Järvinen
2010-02-18  9:25             ` Franco Fichtner

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