netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/9] net: sctp: sctp_outq: consolidate chars into bitfield

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Date:	Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:26:21 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/9] net: sctp: sctp_outq: consolidate chars
 into bitfield

On 04/17/2013 10:43 AM, David Laight wrote:
>>   	__u32 outstanding_bytes;
>>
>> -	/* Are we doing fast-rtx on this queue */
>> -	char fast_rtx;
>> -
>> -	/* Corked? */
>> -	char cork;
>> -
>> -	/* Is this structure empty?  */
>> -	char empty;
>> +	__u8 fast_rtx:1,	/* Are we doing fast-rtx on this queue */
>> +	     cork:1,		/* Corked? */
>> +	     empty:1;		/* Is this structure empty?  */
>>   };
>
> Use of bitfields just makes the code slower.
> The only real excuse for using them is to reduce the size
> of a structure that is allocated a lot.

sctp_outq is _embedded_ into an sctp_association structure, which
has [size: 2280, cachelines: 36, members: 76]! A next step would be
to try to reorder its elements carefully and see if we can reduce
the size by filling some holes.
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