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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	devel@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][VLAN] Merge tree equal tails in vlan_skb_recv
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:25:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47591F9F.1020607@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47591ECF.2020707@openvz.org>

Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> There are tree paths in it, that set the skb->proto and then
> perform common receive manipulations (basically call netif_rx()).
> 
> I think, that we can make this code flow easier to understand
> by introducing the vlan_set_encap_proto() function (I hope the 
> name is good) to setup the skb proto and merge the paths calling 
> netif_rx() together.
> 
> Surprisingly, but gcc detects this thing and merges these paths
> by itself, so this patch doesn't make the vlan module smaller.


I already have something similar queued, but your patch is a nice
cleanup on top. I'll merge it into my tree and send it out after
some testing, hopefully today.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-07 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-07 10:22 [PATCH][VLAN] Merge tree equal tails in vlan_skb_recv Pavel Emelyanov
2007-12-07 10:25 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-01-09  8:15   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-01-09 18:42     ` Patrick McHardy

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