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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>
Cc: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	jschlst@samba.org, davem@davemloft.net, acme@ghostprotocols.net,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Merge __load_pointer() and load_pointer() in net/core/filter.c; kernel 2.6.14
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:19:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <436A3880.9000104@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051103065809.GC27232@gaz.sfgoth.com>

Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> 
>>>So I guess use my patch and take "inline" off? What do you think?
> 
> Well the original author presumably thought that the fast-path of
> load_pointer() was critical enough to keep inline (since it can be run many
> times per packet)  So they made the deliberate choice of separating it
> into two functions - one inline, one non-inline.

Exactly. __load_pointer is only called rarely, while load_pointer is
called whenever data needs to be read from the packet. It shouldn't
be changed without any justification.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-03 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-03  6:19 [PATCH] Merge __load_pointer() and load_pointer() in net/core/filter.c; kernel 2.6.14 Kris Katterjohn
2005-11-03  6:58 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2005-11-03 16:19   ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-03 18:13 [PATCH] Merge __load_pointer() and load_pointer() in net/core/filter.c;kernel 2.6.14 Kris Katterjohn
2005-11-03  2:48 [PATCH] Merge __load_pointer() and load_pointer() in net/core/filter.c; kernel 2.6.14 Kris Katterjohn
2005-11-03  2:13 Kris Katterjohn
2005-11-03  2:30 ` Herbert Xu
     [not found] <e626300280b94e0abc26defcc6043b91.kjak@ispwest.com>
2005-11-03  1:50 ` Herbert Xu

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