From: Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:04:51 +0200
> The only real in-tree user of nfcache was IPVS, who only needs a single > bit. Unfortunately I couldn't find some other free bit in sk_buff to > stuff that bit into, so I introduced a separate field for them. Maybe > the IPVS guys can resolve that to further save space. I think we must resolve this one before 2.6.14 goes out, which gives us a lot of time, but for now I'll eat that one-bit member. > Initially I wanted to shrink pkt_type to three bits (PACKET_HOST and > alike are only 6 values defined), but unfortunately the bluetooth code > overloads pkt_type :( This also must be cured somehow, that really isn't a clean nor nice usage of this field. > - remove all never-implemented 'nfcache' code > - don't have ipvs code abuse 'nfcache' field. currently get's their own > compile-conditional skb->ipvs_property field. IPVS maintainers can > decide to move this bit elswhere, but nfcache needs to die. > - remove skb->nfcache field to save 4 bytes > - move skb->nfctinfo into three unused bits to save further 4 bytes > > Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks Harald. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
