[ovs-dev] [datapath 2/2] datapath: Shrink sw_flow_mask by 8 bytes (64-bit) or 4 bytes (32-bit).

[Jesse Gross]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> We won't normally have a ton of flow masks but using a size_t to store
> values no bigger than sizeof(struct sw_flow_key) seems excessive.
>
> This reduces sw_flow_key_range and sw_flow_mask by 4 bytes on 32-bit
> systems.  On 64-bit systems it shrinks sw_flow_key_range by 12 bytes but
> sw_flow_mask only by 8 bytes due to padding.
>
> Compile tested only.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>