linux/net/ipv6/netfilter
Harald Welte 6869c4d8e0 [NETFILTER]: reduce netfilter sk_buff enlargement
As discussed at netconf'05, we're trying to save every bit in sk_buff.
The patch below makes sk_buff 8 bytes smaller.  I did some basic
testing on my notebook and it seems to work.

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.

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 :(

The conntrack-event-api (out-of-tree) uses nfcache, but Rusty just
came up with a way how to do it without any skb fields, so it's safe
to remove it.

- 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 <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:31:04 -07:00
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ip6_queue.c [NETFILTER]: reduce netfilter sk_buff enlargement 2005-08-29 15:31:04 -07:00
ip6_tables.c [NETFILTER]: reduce netfilter sk_buff enlargement 2005-08-29 15:31:04 -07:00
ip6t_ah.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_dst.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_esp.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_eui64.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_frag.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_hbh.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_hl.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_ipv6header.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_length.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_limit.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_LOG.c [NETFILTER]: Fix ip6t_LOG MAC format 2005-07-22 12:52:47 -07:00
ip6t_mac.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_mark.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_MARK.c [NETFILTER]: reduce netfilter sk_buff enlargement 2005-08-29 15:31:04 -07:00
ip6t_multiport.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_owner.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_physdev.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6t_rt.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6table_filter.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6table_mangle.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ip6table_raw.c [NETFILTER]: Missing owner-field initialization in ip6table_raw 2005-06-21 14:03:01 -07:00
Kconfig Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Makefile Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00