From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [netfilter-core] [PATCH] netfilter: remove padding from struct xt_match on 64bit builds Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:10:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4946574F.5080107@trash.net> References: <1229089190.2921.7.camel@castor.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: coreteam@netfilter.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org, lkml , Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Richard Kennedy Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:56031 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750802AbYLONKr (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:10:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1229089190.2921.7.camel@castor.localdomain> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Richard Kennedy wrote: > reorder struct xt_match to remove 8 bytes of padding and make its size > 128 bytes. > > This saves a small amount of data space in each of the xt netfilter > modules and fits xt_match in one 128 byte cache line. Applied, thanks.