netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] netdevice.h: Align struct netdevices members

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Date:	Thu, 12 May 2011 15:05:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netdevice.h: Align struct netdevices members

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 21:22:05 -0700

> On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 05:53 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Le lundi 09 mai 2011 à 20:42 -0700, Joe Perches a écrit :
>> > Save a bit of space.
>> Hmm... correct alignements are far more important for this structure.
> 
> I agree.  I aligned these members on "natural" boundaries.
> 4 consecutive chars rather than 2 chars, unsigned long.
>  
>> Did you run benchmarks on 32bit and 64bit platforms ?
> 
> Nope.
> 
>> BTW we have ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp markers, I am not even sure
>> this patch saves space.
> 
> That depends on whether or not CONFIG_SMP is defined and
> all of the changes are before any ____cacheline_aligned markers.

I think this is sane, Eric do you still have objections?
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