netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: reorder flowi

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Date:   Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:13:31 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pabeni@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: reorder flowi_common fields to avoid
 holes

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:37:53 +0100

> the flowi* structures are used and memsetted by server functions
> in critical path. Currently flowi_common has a couple of holes that
> we can eliminate reordering the struct fields. As a side effect,
> both flowi4 and flowi6 shrink by 8 bytes.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks.