netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/5] accounting unit and variable

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:32:26 -0500
From:	Hideo AOKI <haoki@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, satoshi.oshima.fk@...achi.com,
	andi@...stfloor.org, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	johnpol@....mipt.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	yumiko.sugita.yf@...achi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] accounting unit and variable

David Miller wrote:
> From: Hideo AOKI <haoki@...hat.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:27:13 -0500
> 
>> Herbert Xu wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 05:23:10PM -0400, Hideo AOKI wrote:
>>>>  
>>>> +#define SK_DATAGRAM_MEM_QUANTUM ((int)PAGE_SIZE)
>>>> +
>>>> +static inline int sk_datagram_pages(int amt)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	return DIV_ROUND_UP(amt, SK_DATAGRAM_MEM_QUANTUM);
>>>> +}
>>> Does this really have to be int? Unsigned would let the compiler
>>> optimise this to a simple shift.
>> Thank you for the comment.
>>
>> This inline function is used to calculate the first argument of atomic_add()
>> and atomic_sub(). Since the argument is int, I believe that using int is
>> better than using unsigned int.
> 
> If you know the values will always be positive, as you will know here,
> it is OK to us unsigned int here and avoids the unacceptable expensive
> divide instruction.
> 
> Please fix this.

Hello,

Thanks for your comments. I finally understood.

I'll fix it and resubmit the patch as soon as possible.

Regards,
Hideo

--
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html