netdev - Re: [PATCH] xfrm: optimize ipv4 selector matching

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Date:	Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:41:32 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm: optimize ipv4 selector matching

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:15:25PM -0000, David Laight wrote:
>  
> > Please use :
> > 
> > +static inline bool addr4_match(__be32 a1, __be32 a2, u8 prefixlen)
> > +{
> > +       /* C99 6.5.7 (3): u32 << 32 is undefined behaviour */
> > +       if (prefixlen == 0)
> > +               return true;
> > +       return !((a1 ^ a2) & htonl(0xFFFFFFFFu << (32 - prefixlen)));
> > +}
> 
> I'm not sure I'd agree about using 'u8'.
> It may well cause an unnecessary mask with 0xff.

It's u8 in all other places.
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