From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: replace macros net_random and net_srandom with direct calls to prandom Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:00:25 +0100 Message-ID: <20140111180025.GB6586@order.stressinduktion.org> References: <1389442559-13097-1-git-send-email-aruna.hewapathirane@gmail.com> <1389462757.2537.61.camel@joe-AO722> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Aruna-Hewapathirane , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Joe Perches Return-path: Received: from order.stressinduktion.org ([87.106.68.36]:56788 "EHLO order.stressinduktion.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751274AbaAKSA1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:00:27 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1389462757.2537.61.camel@joe-AO722> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 09:52:37AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2014-01-11 at 07:15 -0500, Aruna-Hewapathirane wrote: > > This patch removes the net_random and net_srandom macros and replaces > > them with direct calls to the prandom ones. As new commits only seem to > > use prandom_u32 there is no use to keep them around. > > This change makes it easier to grep for users of prandom_u32. > > Seems sensible. > > Also, there may be some value in a future patch > to use reciprocal_divide in a few places > > > diff --git a/net/802/garp.c b/net/802/garp.c > > @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static void garp_join_timer_arm(struct garp_applicant *app) > > { > > unsigned long delay; > > > > - delay = (u64)msecs_to_jiffies(garp_join_time) * net_random() >> 32; > > + delay = (u64)msecs_to_jiffies(garp_join_time) * prandom_u32() >> 32; > > reciprocal_divide() Does reciprocal_divide() make sense without reciprocal_value() from a stylish point of view? I wouldn't do that just because it expands into the same code. Greetings, Hannes