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

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Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:45:50 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Hideo AOKI <haoki@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Satoshi Oshima <satoshi.oshima.fk@...achi.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	Yumiko Sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@...achi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] accounting unit and variable

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:27:13PM -0500, Hideo AOKI wrote:
> 
> Herbert Xu 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.

That doesn't really answer my question.  Is this quantity ever
negative? If not you should make it unsigned for the reason I
gave above.

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