netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: unix socket code abuses csum

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Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:28:09 +1100
From:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	edumazet@...gle.com, gustavold@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: unix socket code abuses csum_partial


Hi Dave,

> Alternatively you could just make unix_hash_fold() use csum_fold(),
> right?
> 
> static inline unsigned int unix_hash_fold(__wsum n)
> {
> 	unsigned int hash = (__force unsigned int) csum_fold(n);
> 
> 	hash ^= hash>>8;
> 	return hash&(UNIX_HASH_SIZE-1);
> }

Thanks, sounds good. Updated patch on the way.

Anton
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