From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][VLAN] Merge tree equal tails in vlan_skb_recv
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:42:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4785159D.9090105@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478482A7.1040505@openvz.org>
Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Hi, Patrick.
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> What are your plans about this patch? Should I resubmit this one?
Sorry, I'm pretty backlogged from Christmas, but I have your patch
queued and hope to catch up until the end of this week.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-09 18:46 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
2008-01-09 8:15 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-01-09 18:42 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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