netdev - Re: [v1 PATCH 0/7] rhashtable: Introduce inlined interface

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Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2015 09:21:06 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, eric.dumazet@...il.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v1 PATCH 0/7] rhashtable: Introduce inlined interface

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 06:17:15PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 08:28:44 +1100
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 04:17:43PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> >>
> >> Why do you need that trailer[] think in the new netlink code?
> >> You only use it in an offsetof() expression and wouldn't sizeof
> >> the structure work just fine for that?  This also makes the
> >> memset() superfluous in the initializer function.
> > 
> > Aha I was wating for someone to ask :) Without the trailer it
> > gets padded to 16 bytes on x86-64.  I found this out because
> > netlink was mysteriously failing due to the extra padding not
> > getting zeroed. Designated initializers do not zero padding bytes,
> > so you'd need an explicit memset.  Besides, hashing another
> > four bytes with jhash that always contained zero seemed wasteful.
> 
> Then "offsetof(struct netlink_compare_arg, portid) + sizeof(u32)"?

But that should be identical to the trailer offset, no? The whole
structure gets padded to 16 bytes, not the trailer (since it's only
a char[]).

Cheers,
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