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

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Date:   Tue, 7 Feb 2017 21:31:33 -0800
From:   Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@....org>
To:     Joe Stringer <joe@....org>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] openvswitch: Pack struct sw_flow_key.

> On Feb 6, 2017, at 11:15 PM, Joe Stringer <joe@....org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Good catch. Looked, there are no other places to change.

Will rebase to current net-next and repost.

 Jarno