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Date:	Sat, 28 Feb 2015 21:31:19 +0100
From:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/6] flow_dissector: Add hash_extra field to
 flow_keys struct

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 19:11 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h
> > index c605d30..d41a034 100644
> > --- a/include/net/sch_generic.h
> > +++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h
> > @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ struct qdisc_skb_cb {
> >  	unsigned int		pkt_len;
> >  	u16			slave_dev_queue_mapping;
> >  	u16			_pad;
> > -#define QDISC_CB_PRIV_LEN 20
> > +#define QDISC_CB_PRIV_LEN 24
> >  	unsigned char		data[QDISC_CB_PRIV_LEN];
> >  };
> >  
> 
> This change breaks kernel build : We already are at the cb[] limit.
> 
> Please check commit 257117862634d89de33fec74858b1a0ba5ab444b
> ("net: sched: shrink struct qdisc_skb_cb to 28 bytes")

I've been toying around with reducing skb->cb[] to 44 bytes,
Seems Tom could integrate following patch from my test branch:

http://git.breakpoint.cc/cgit/fw/net-next.git/commit/?h=skb_cb_44_01&id=29d711e1a71244b71940c2d1e346500bef4d6670

It makes sfq use a smaller flow key state.
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