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* [rfc] bridge: is PACKET_LOOPBACK unlikely()?
@ 2010-08-23  3:35 Simon Horman
  2010-08-23  4:14 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Simon Horman @ 2010-08-23  3:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev, bridge; +Cc: Jiri Pirko, Stephen Hemminger, Jesse Gross

While looking at using netdev_rx_handler_register for openvswitch Jesse
Gross suggested that an unlikely() might be worthwhile in that code.
I'm interested to see if its appropriate for the bridge code.

Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>

Index: net-next-2.6/net/bridge/br_input.c
===================================================================
--- net-next-2.6.orig/net/bridge/br_input.c	2010-08-23 12:17:58.000000000 +0900
+++ net-next-2.6/net/bridge/br_input.c	2010-08-23 12:19:46.000000000 +0900
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ struct sk_buff *br_handle_frame(struct s
 	const unsigned char *dest = eth_hdr(skb)->h_dest;
 	int (*rhook)(struct sk_buff *skb);
 
-	if (skb->pkt_type == PACKET_LOOPBACK)
+	if (unlikely(skb->pkt_type == PACKET_LOOPBACK))
 		return skb;
 
 	if (!is_valid_ether_addr(eth_hdr(skb)->h_source))

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