From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cong Ding Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: ipv4: refine the logic for determining daddr in ip_queue_xmit. Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:12:30 +0000 Message-ID: <20130115101229.GA27222@gmail.com> References: <1358225255-30973-1-git-send-email-harvey.huawei.yang@gmail.com> <1358225829.8744.4508.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Harvey Yang , "David S. Miller" , Alexey Kuznetsov , James Morris , Hideaki YOSHIFUJI , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Dumazet Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1358225829.8744.4508.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 08:57:09PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 12:47 +0800, Harvey Yang wrote: > > The destination address daddr is faddr if source route option is set, otherwise it is inet_daddr. So use if-else to assign the value. > > > > Signed-off-by: Harvey Yang > > --- > > net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 4 ++-- > > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c > > index 3e98ed2..22b738c 100644 > > --- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c > > +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c > > @@ -349,10 +349,10 @@ int ip_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi *fl) > > __be32 daddr; > > > > /* Use correct destination address if we have options. */ > > - daddr = inet->inet_daddr; > > if (inet_opt && inet_opt->opt.srr) > > daddr = inet_opt->opt.faddr; > > - > > + else > > + daddr = inet->inet_daddr; > > /* If this fails, retransmit mechanism of transport layer will > > * keep trying until route appears or the connection times > > * itself out. > > Current code is faster, srr is not often used. If you turn on O2 option in GCC, both versions behave the same (generate same binary code). If srr is not often used, why not use unlikely() macro? - cong