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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Flavio Leitner <fbl@sysclose.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igmp: fix ip_mc_sf_allow race
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:55:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B42E252.1080405@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF7FCD6D97.5F7C3DD3-ON882576A2.00001FF7-882576A2.00009335@us.ibm.com>

Le 05/01/2010 01:06, David Stevens a écrit :
> For readability, instead of:
> 
>         ret = X;
>         if (condition)
>                 goto out;
> 
> I prefer:
> 
>         if (condition) {
>                 ret = X;
>                 goto out;
>         }
> 
> which makes it clear that ret is for the return and not
> some random state change unrelated to the condition.
> 

Linus argument for this common Linux coding style is that generated code is smaller

	mov	$-6,%eax
	cmp	condition
	je	out

versus
	cmp	condition
	jne	.ok
	mov	$-6,%eax
	jmp	out
.ok:


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-30 14:23 [PATCH] igmp: fix ip_mc_sf_allow race Flavio Leitner
2010-01-04  5:54 ` David Miller
2010-01-04 11:29   ` Flavio Leitner
2010-01-04 13:07     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-01-04 18:51       ` Flavio Leitner
2010-01-04 19:53         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-01-05  0:06         ` David Stevens
2010-01-05  6:55           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-01-05 20:52             ` [PATCH] igmp: fix ip_mc_sf_allow race [v3] Flavio Leitner
2010-01-05 22:36               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-01-05 23:03               ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-06 16:40               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-06 17:10                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-06 18:50                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-28 16:13               ` [PATCH] igmp: fix ip_mc_sf_allow race [v5] Flavio Leitner
2010-02-02 15:32                 ` David Miller

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