netdev - Re: [v1 PATCH 7/14] netfilter: Use rhashtable_lookup instead of lookup

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Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:13:46 +0000
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [v1 PATCH 7/14] netfilter: Use rhashtable_lookup instead of
 lookup_compare

On 16.03, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 08:28:42AM +0000, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > On 03/15/15 at 09:44pm, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > The use of rhashtable_lookup_compare in nft_hash is gratuitous
> > > since the comparison function is just doing memcmp.  Furthermore,
> > > there is cruft embedded in the comparson function that should
> > > instead be moved into the caller of the lookup.
> > > 
> > > This patch moves that cruft over and replacces the call to
> > > rhashtable_lookup_compare with rhashtable_lookup.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> > 
> > The reason for the indirection was to not bypass the abstraction
> > nft_data_cmp() provides.
> > 
> > No objection to the change but maybe leave a comment in
> > nft_data_cmp() that if one changes nft_data_cmp() one needs to
> > look at nft_hash and see if the direct use of rhashtable_lookup()
> > is still valid.
> 
> Well we could preserve nft_data_cmp if necessary.  It'll just
> mean an extra indirect call to do the compare when needed.
> 
> Patrick?

An upcoming patchset will add transaction support to sets, which needs
the callback. So please leave it for know since it will only cause
unnecessary churn.
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