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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: kfree_skb: unnecessary check ?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 18:53:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D10B6FE.1050602@trash.net> (raw)

Hi everyone.

In skbuff.h one sees:

static inline void kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
        if (atomic_read(&skb->users) == 1 || 
atomic_dec_and_test(&skb->users))
                __kfree_skb(skb);
}

Is atomic_dec_and_test really necessary ? atomic_dec_and_test only 
returns true if its argument has hit zero, so it was 1 before.
If atomic_dec is only a bit cheaper than atomic_dec_and_test (which i 
guess it is), wouldn't it make more sense to use something like this:

static inline void kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
    if (atomic_read(&skb->users) == 1)
        __kfree(skb);
    else
        atomic_dec(&skb->users);
}

Bye,
Patrick

             reply	other threads:[~2002-06-19 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-19 16:53 Patrick McHardy [this message]
2002-06-19 19:51 ` kfree_skb: unnecessary check ? Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher
2002-06-19 20:26 ` kuznet
2002-06-19 21:32   ` Patrick McHardy

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