linux-kernel - Re: [net-next PATCH v2 4/8] net: Change return type of sk_busy

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:02:56 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        sridhar.samudrala@...el.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v2 4/8] net: Change return type of sk_busy_loop
 from bool to void

On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 14:37 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> 
> >From what I can tell there is only a couple spots where we are actually
> checking the return value of sk_busy_loop. As there are only a few
> consumers of that data, and the data being checked for can be replaced
> with a check for !skb_queue_empty() we might as well just pull the code
> out of sk_busy_loop and place it in the spots that actually need it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>