netdev - Re: [PATCH] skbuff: remove pointless conditional before kfree

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Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:38:48 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
Cc:	Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] skbuff: remove pointless conditional before kfree_skb()

On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 17:39 -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:

> Ok, and what if kfree_skb() becomes a macro that first checks
> if the skb is NULL and if not, call the _kfree_skb() to
> continue as before?
> 
> #define kfree_skb(skb)		\
>         if (skb)		\
> 		_kfree_skb(skb)	\

Then its adding a conditional test on each call site and increase
kernel code size.

So if you plan submitting such patch, please keep the whole thing out of
line.



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