linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tcp: cleanup of cwnd initialization in tcp_init

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1012231002310.16569@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:03:18 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: cleanup of cwnd initialization in
 tcp_init_metrics()

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Le mercredi 22 décembre 2010 à 19:39 +0100, Jiri Kosina a écrit :
> > Commit 86bcebafc5e7f5 ("tcp: fix >2 iw selection") fixed a case when 
> > congestion window initialization has been mistakenly omitted by 
> > introducing cwnd label and putting backwards jump from the end of the 
> > function.
> > 
> > This makes the code unnecessarily tricky to read and understand on a first 
> > sight.
> > 
> > Shuffle the code around a little bit to make it more obvious.
> 
> Well in fine you have
> 
> 	if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto < TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT && !tp->rx_opt.saw_tstamp)
> 		goto reset;
> 	goto out;
> reset:
> 
> Is that really more obvious ? ;)

To me it seems much more obvious than goto from the very end of the 
function somewhere into the middle and returning from there, but 
definitely a matter of personal taste.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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