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

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Message-Id: <20080207.233104.112504375.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:31:04 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dada1@...mosbay.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [IPSEC] flow: reorder "struct flow_cache_entry" and remove
 SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:12:49 +0100

> 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>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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