netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net] netpoll: fix rx_hook() interface by passing the skb

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Date:	Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:53:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	David.Laight@...LAB.COM
Cc:	antonio@...hcoding.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net] netpoll: fix rx_hook() interface by passing the
 skb

From: "David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:43:38 +0100

> From a code optimisation point of view you probably don't want to be
> calculating the source, offset and length early.
> It is quite likely that the local variables will have to be written
> to the stack (because of the function calls) - so it is almost
> certainly more efficient to calculate them just before the call.

But this change is being made from a bug prevention point of view,
we already we're already getting this code path wrong as-is.
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