On Wed, 2016-04-06 at 14:53 -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> It wastes space and gets worse as we add new flags, so convert bit-wide
> flags to a bitfield.
>
> Currently it already saves 4 bytes in sctp_sock, which are left as holes
> in it for now. The whole struct needs packing, which should be done in
> another patch.
>
> Note that do_auto_asconf cannot be merged, as explained in the comment
> before it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leit...@gmail.com>
> ---
[]
> diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
[]
> @@ -210,14 +210,14 @@ struct sctp_sock {
> int user_frag;
>
> __u32 autoclose;
> - __u8 nodelay;
> - __u8 disable_fragments;
> - __u8 v4mapped;
> - __u8 frag_interleave;
> __u32 adaptation_ind;
> __u32 pd_point;
> - __u8 recvrcvinfo;
> - __u8 recvnxtinfo;
> + __u16 nodelay:1,
> + disable_fragments:1,
> + v4mapped:1,
> + frag_interleave:1,
> + recvrcvinfo:1,
> + recvnxtinfo:1;
Might as well make this __u32 as the next field would be
aligned on an atomic_t
It might be better if these fields didn't use the __ prefix.
