From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][VLAN] Merge tree equal tails in vlan_skb_recv
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:15:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <478482A7.1040505@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47591F9F.1020607@trash.net>
Hi, Patrick.
> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>> There are tree paths in it, that set the skb->proto and then
>> perform common receive manipulations (basically call netif_rx()).
>>
>> I think, that we can make this code flow easier to understand
>> by introducing the vlan_set_encap_proto() function (I hope the
>> name is good) to setup the skb proto and merge the paths calling
>> netif_rx() together.
>>
>> Surprisingly, but gcc detects this thing and merges these paths
>> by itself, so this patch doesn't make the vlan module smaller.
>
>
> I already have something similar queued, but your patch is a nice
> cleanup on top. I'll merge it into my tree and send it out after
> some testing, hopefully today.
>
What are your plans about this patch? Should I resubmit this one?
Thanks,
Pavel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-09 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-07 10:22 [PATCH][VLAN] Merge tree equal tails in vlan_skb_recv Pavel Emelyanov
2007-12-07 10:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-09 8:15 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2008-01-09 18:42 ` Patrick McHardy
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