netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/9] net: sctp: sctp_outq: consolidate chars into bitfield

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Message-ID: <516EC1DE.6020209@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:38:06 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
CC:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/9] net: sctp: sctp_outq: consolidate chars
 into bitfield

On 04/17/2013 05:27 PM, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:26:21AM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> On 04/17/2013 10:43 AM, David Laight wrote:
>>>>   	__u32 outstanding_bytes;
>>>>
>>>> -	/* Are we doing fast-rtx on this queue */
>>>> -	char fast_rtx;
>>>> -
>>>> -	/* Corked? */
>>>> -	char cork;
>>>> -
>>>> -	/* Is this structure empty?  */
>>>> -	char empty;
>>>> +	__u8 fast_rtx:1,	/* Are we doing fast-rtx on this queue */
>>>> +	     cork:1,		/* Corked? */
>>>> +	     empty:1;		/* Is this structure empty?  */
>>>>   };
>>>
>>> Use of bitfields just makes the code slower.
>>> The only real excuse for using them is to reduce the size
>>> of a structure that is allocated a lot.
>>
>> sctp_outq is _embedded_ into an sctp_association structure, which
>> has [size: 2280, cachelines: 36, members: 76]! A next step would be
>> to try to reorder its elements carefully and see if we can reduce
>> the size by filling some holes.
> Unrelated note: How did you get pahole to give you that information?  For some
> reason pahole can never glean any useful information about struct
> sctp_association for me, despite having dwarf info embedded into the cu.

I made a ``make net/sctp/'' and run pahole against net/sctp/sctp.o redirecting
the output into a file, thus I have all possible headers visible.
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