netdev - Re: [Patch net 5/5] net_sched: convert tcf_exts from list to flex

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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:03:50 +0300
From:	Amir Vadai <amirva@...il.com>
To:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net 5/5] net_sched: convert tcf_exts from list to flex_array

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 11:46 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> As pointed out by Jamal, an action could be shared by
> multiple filters, so we can't use list to chain them
> any more after we get rid of the original tc_action.
> Instead, we could just save pointers to these actions
> in tcf_exts, since they are refcount'ed, so convert
> the list to a flex array.
>
> The ugly part is the action API still accepts list
> as a parameter, I just introduce a helper function to
> convert the flex array of pointers to a list.
>
> Fixes: a85a970af265 ("net_sched: move tc_action into tcf_common")
> Reported-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> ---

[...]

> -#define tc_single_action(_exts) \
> -       (list_is_singular(&(_exts)->actions))
> +#define tc_no_actions(_exts)  (&(_exts)->nr_actions == 0)
> +#define tc_single_action(_exts) (&(_exts)->nr_actions == 1)

Should remove the '&' here.

Amir

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