netdev - [IPSEC] flow: reorder "struct flow_cache_entry" and remove SLAB_HWCACHE

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Date:	Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:12:49 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [IPSEC] flow: reorder "struct flow_cache_entry" and remove SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN

1) We can shrink sizeof(struct flow_cache_entry) by 8 bytes on 64bit arches.
2) No need to align these structures to hardware cache lines, this only waste 
  ram for very litle gain.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

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