netdev - [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ip_append

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Date:	Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:34:47 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ip_append_data() optim

Compiler is not smart enough to avoid a conditional branch.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_output.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 6d2753c..e427620 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -837,10 +837,9 @@ int ip_append_data(struct sock *sk,
 		inet->cork.length = 0;
 		sk->sk_sndmsg_page = NULL;
 		sk->sk_sndmsg_off = 0;
-		if ((exthdrlen = rt->dst.header_len) != 0) {
-			length += exthdrlen;
-			transhdrlen += exthdrlen;
-		}
+		exthdrlen = rt->dst.header_len;
+		length += exthdrlen;
+		transhdrlen += exthdrlen;
 	} else {
 		rt = (struct rtable *)inet->cork.dst;
 		if (inet->cork.flags & IPCORK_OPT)



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