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

quoted

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.