From: Philip Craig <philipc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:48:27 +1000 > I prefer to remove the padding so that we don't change how other > architectures work. The attached patch does this. I'm not sure > if this has any performance penalties on ARM. > > The attribute(packed) is required on both the port structs > and the unions. It has performance penalties on most RISC architectures. Now these elements cannot be assumed to have any particular alignment, so gcc will emit byte-at-a-time accesses to these elements. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
