netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] vxlan: improve vxlan route lookup checks.

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:17:01 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Jiri Benc' <jbenc@...hat.com>, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] vxlan: improve vxlan route lookup
 checks.

From: Of Jiri Benc
> Sent: 15 November 2016 14:40
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:43:55 -0800, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
> > @@ -1929,8 +1951,8 @@ static void vxlan_xmit_one(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
> >  	union vxlan_addr *src;
> >  	struct vxlan_metadata _md;
> >  	struct vxlan_metadata *md = &_md;
> > -	struct dst_entry *ndst = NULL;
> >  	__be16 src_port = 0, dst_port;
> > +	struct dst_entry *ndst = NULL;
> >  	__be32 vni, label;
> >  	__be16 df = 0;
> >  	__u8 tos, ttl;
> 
> This looks kind of arbitrary. You might want to remove this hunk or
> merge it to patch 3.

Worse than arbitrary, it adds 4 bytes of pad on 64bit systems.

	David