netdev - Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 2/3] net: dcb: use _safe() version of list iterators

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Date:	Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:42:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	john.r.fastabend@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 2/3] net: dcb: use _safe() version of list
 iterators

From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:00:54 -0800

> Use _safe() version of list iterator macros in dcb_setapp().
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>

Why?  It's unnecessary overhead, since we always branch to "out", and
therefore out of the list traversal loop, any time we list_del()
something on the list.
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