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From: Pekka Riikonen <priikone@iki.fi>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: dev@openvswitch.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	"Jesse Gross" <jesse@nicira.com>,
	"Pravin B Shelar" <pshelar@nicira.com>,
	jarno.rajahalme@nsn.com, "Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	"Maciej Żenczykowski" <maze@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH next-next v4 1/2] net: Use 16bits for inner_*_headers fields of struct skbuff
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:25:16 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1305220923130.11532@git.silcnet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369205836-9407-2-git-send-email-horms@verge.net.au>

On Wed, 22 May 2013, Simon Horman wrote:

> include/linux/skbuff.h | 63 +++++++-------------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> index 2e0ced1..3791615 100644
> --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
> +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> @@ -509,9 +509,9 @@ struct sk_buff {
> 		__u32		reserved_tailroom;
> 	};
>
> -	sk_buff_data_t		inner_transport_header;
> -	sk_buff_data_t		inner_network_header;
> -	sk_buff_data_t		inner_mac_header;
> +	__u16			inner_transport_header;
> +	__u16			inner_network_header;
> +	__u16			inner_mac_header;
> 	sk_buff_data_t		transport_header;
> 	sk_buff_data_t		network_header;
> 	sk_buff_data_t		mac_header;
>
Why not take one more step and use 16-bit fields for the other header 
fields too: transport_header, network_header and mac_header?

 	Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-22  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-22  6:57 [PATCH next-next v4 0/2] MPLS: Add limited GSO support Simon Horman
2013-05-22  6:57 ` [PATCH next-next v4 1/2] net: Use 16bits for inner_*_headers fields of struct skbuff Simon Horman
2013-05-22  7:25   ` Pekka Riikonen [this message]
2013-05-22 11:32     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-24  1:38   ` David Miller
2013-05-22  6:57 ` [PATCH next-next v4 2/2] MPLS: Add limited GSO support Simon Horman

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