netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: snmp mib cleanup

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Date:	Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:38:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: snmp mib cleanup

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:36:06 +0100

> There is no point to align or pad mibs to cache lines, they are per cpu
> allocated with a 8 bytes alignment anyway.
> This wastes space for no gain. This patch removes __SNMP_MIB_ALIGN__
> 
> Since SNMP mibs contain "unsigned long" fields only, we can relax the
> allocation alignment from "unsigned long long" to "unsigned long"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Also applied, thanks Eric.
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