From: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 12:53:24 -0700
> 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.
Indeed, this isn't in a UAPI file so __ prefixed types really aren't
appropriate.
