From: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:18:38 +0200 (MEST)

> >but for now I'll eat that one-bit member.
> 
> What is more important? Being as small as possible using bitfields, or being 
> as fast as possible? (Usage of bitfields is some CPU overhead for their 
> extraction)

I'm conjuring that we can store the state elsewhere, for example
in the SKB ->cb[] control block.  But that requires some verifications.

Memory access overhead dwarfs whatever the cpu has to do to extract
the bits.
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