Re: [PATCH] gre: strict physical device binding

["Timo Teräs" <timo.teras@iki.fi>]

David Miller wrote:
> From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:22:24 -0800 (PST)
> 
>> From: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
>> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:50:05 +0200
>>
>>> Check the device on receive path and allow otherwise identical devices
>>> as long as the physical device differs.
>>>
>>> This is useful for NBMA tunnels, where you want to use different gre IP
>>> for each public IP available via different physical devices.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
>> Seems reasonable, applied.
>>
>> Thanks Timo.
> 
> BTW, isn't it much more efficient to implement this priority scoring
> using a simple integer instead of this big honking 4 entry array of
> pointers on the stack (one entry of which isn't even _used_)?
> 
> Something like:
> 
> 	int score = 4;
> 
> 	...
> 	for_each_hash_chain() {
> 		if (!match)
> 			continue;
> 		if (exact_match)
> 			return this_entry;
> 		this_score = 0;
> 		if (condition1)
> 			this_score |= 2;
> 		if (condition2)
> 			this_score |= 1;
> 		if (this_score < score) {
> 			score = this_score;
> 			cand = this_entry;
> 		}
> 	}
> 	...
> 	return cand;

I guess so, well send updated patch.

- Timo