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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Netfilter Developers <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Fix compiler warning.
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:31:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B214CA8.7010902@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.0912101953360.23791@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

Le 10/12/2009 19:53, Jan Engelhardt a écrit :
> 
> On Donnerstag 2009-12-10 18:50, Laurent Chavey wrote:
>>
>> good point.  I  agree with the need for the exception, I would just
>> like it to be more explicit in the code itself (like a turn off
>> check around that particular statement) so we do not have to scrub
>> thru the compiler output to filter out good / bad warning. question:
>>  why do we not force the timestamp in the skb before going thru the
>> chain ?
> 
> Because it is probably too expensive to do, unless you employ
> things like xt_time?

Right. On some platforms, timestamps are quite expensive (say, a fraction 
of one micro second to get one of them), we try to avoid them as much as possible.
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-10 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <pvmhbrzboyb.fsf@chavey.mtv.corp.google.com>
2009-12-10  2:07 ` [PATCH] netfilter: Fix compiler warning David Miller
2009-12-10  4:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-10 11:26   ` Patrick McHardy
2009-12-10 17:50   ` Laurent Chavey
2009-12-10 18:53     ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-12-10 19:31       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-12-10 21:44 chavey
2009-12-10 22:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-12-10 22:08   ` David Miller
2009-12-10 23:23     ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-12-10 23:44     ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-12-14 13:20       ` Patrick McHardy
2009-12-10 22:13 ` Andrew Morton

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