From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756942Ab0JIScT (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2010 14:32:19 -0400 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:47881 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756067Ab0JIScR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2010 14:32:17 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 11:32:13 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: =?UTF-8?B?SmluZMWZaWNoIE1ha292acSNa2E=?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, aabdulla@nvidia.com, ditto@google.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: reconfigure multicast packet filter only when needed Message-ID: <20101009113213.62c2f131@nehalam> In-Reply-To: References: <20100812115430.2b5d8683@starbug.prg01.itonis.net> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 13:26:05 +0200 Jindřich Makovička wrote: > + > + /* current packet filter state */ > + u32 cur_pff; > + u32 cur_addr[2]; > + u32 cur_mask[2]; > }; No big deal, but couldn't you just put those temporary variables on the stack. and reread the current value before stopping. --