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netfilter 09/09: remove padding from struct xt_match on 64bit builds

reorder struct xt_match to remove 8 bytes of padding and make its size
128 bytes.

This saves a small amount of data space in each of the xt netfilter
modules and fits xt_match in one 128 byte cache line.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Richard Kennedy 16 years ago
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      include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h

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include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h

@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ struct xt_match
 	struct list_head list;
 
 	const char name[XT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN-1];
+	u_int8_t revision;
 
 	/* Return true or false: return FALSE and set *hotdrop = 1 to
            force immediate packet drop. */
@@ -302,7 +303,6 @@ struct xt_match
 	unsigned short proto;
 
 	unsigned short family;
-	u_int8_t revision;
 };
 
 /* Registration hooks for targets. */