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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: wjeong@barracuda.com, weongyo.linux@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inet: set `error' value not under lock_sock().
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 15:37:15 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160309.153715.770009288781656553.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160309182217.GA9708@jwg>

From: Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.linux@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 10:22:21 -0800

> A trivial patch to set `error' variable while not holding
> lock_sock().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.linux@gmail.com>

Deferring the assignment means gcc doesn't have to potentially put it
on the stack across the lock_sock() call.

You're making the code worse not better, the assignment into a local
variable is not an expensive operation.

I'm not applying this change, sorry.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-09 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-09 18:22 [PATCH] inet: set `error' value not under lock_sock() Weongyo Jeong
2016-03-09 20:37 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-03-09 22:46   ` Weongyo Jeong

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