From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Vadym Kochan <vadym.kochan@plvision.eu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
kuba@kernel.org, jiri@mellanox.com, idosch@mellanox.com,
oleksandr.mazur@plvision.eu, serhiy.boiko@plvision.eu,
serhiy.pshyk@plvision.eu, volodymyr.mytnyk@plvision.eu,
taras.chornyi@plvision.eu, andrii.savka@plvision.eu,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mickeyr@marvell.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 1/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add driver for Prestera family ASIC devices
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 04:20:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200530022022.GI877847@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200530004622.GA19411@plvision.eu>
On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 03:46:22AM +0300, Vadym Kochan wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 05:18:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > Please remove all of the __packed attributes.
> >
> > I looked at your data structures and all of them use fixed sized types
> > and are multiples of 4 so the __packed attribute is completely
> > unnecessary.
> >
> > The alignment attribute is also unnecessary so please remove that too.
>
> Some of the fields are u8, so I assume there might be holes added by
> the compiler ? Also these attributes guarantee some ABI compatibility
> with FW side, I will try to remove them and check but it sounds for me a bit
> risky.
Hi Vadym
You might want to play with pahole(1).
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-30 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-28 15:12 [net-next 0/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add Switchdev driver for Prestera family ASIC device 98DX326x (AC3x) Vadym Kochan
2020-05-28 15:12 ` [net-next 1/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add driver for Prestera family ASIC devices Vadym Kochan
2020-05-30 0:18 ` David Miller
2020-05-30 0:46 ` Vadym Kochan
2020-05-30 2:20 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2020-05-30 15:48 ` Ido Schimmel
2020-06-01 10:50 ` Vadym Kochan
2020-06-03 9:23 ` Ido Schimmel
2020-06-20 12:56 ` Vadym Kochan
2020-06-21 8:57 ` Ido Schimmel
2020-06-03 14:16 ` Jiri Pirko
2020-06-10 13:41 ` Vadym Kochan
2020-06-03 14:29 ` Jiri Pirko
2020-06-03 14:36 ` Jiri Pirko
2020-05-28 15:12 ` [net-next 2/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add PCI interface support Vadym Kochan
2020-06-03 9:59 ` Ido Schimmel
2020-05-28 15:12 ` [net-next 3/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add basic devlink support Vadym Kochan
2020-06-03 10:07 ` Ido Schimmel
2020-06-03 14:36 ` Jiri Pirko
2020-05-28 15:12 ` [net-next 4/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add ethtool interface support Vadym Kochan
2020-05-28 15:12 ` [net-next 5/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add Switchdev driver implementation Vadym Kochan
2020-05-28 15:12 ` [net-next 6/6] dt-bindings: marvell,prestera: Add description for device-tree bindings Vadym Kochan
2020-05-30 14:29 ` [net-next 0/6] net: marvell: prestera: Add Switchdev driver for Prestera family ASIC device 98DX326x (AC3x) Ido Schimmel
2020-05-30 14:52 ` Vadym Kochan
2020-05-30 15:54 ` Ido Schimmel
2020-06-01 6:24 ` Jiri Pirko
2020-06-20 13:25 ` Vadym Kochan
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