netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] openvswitch: Pack struct sw_flow

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 23:15:30 -0800
From:   Joe Stringer <joe@....org>
To:     Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@....org>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] openvswitch: Pack struct sw_flow_key.

On 2 February 2017 at 17:10, Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@....org> wrote:
> struct sw_flow_key has two 16-bit holes. Move the most matched
> conntrack match fields there.  In some typical cases this reduces the
> size of the key that needs to be hashed into half and into one cache
> line.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@....org>

Looks like this misses the zeroing in ovs_nla_get_flow_metadata();
might want to double-check for any other memset/copies of the key->ct
field.