netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] Seperate DSACK from SACK fast path

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Date:	Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:06:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	baruch@...en.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Seperate DSACK from SACK fast path

From: Baruch Even <baruch@...en.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:49:49 +0200

> Since the SACK receive cache doesn't need the data to be in host
> order we also remove the ntohl in the checking loop.
 ...
> -	for (i = 0; i< num_sacks; i++) {
> -		__u32 start_seq = ntohl(sp[i].start_seq);
> -		__u32 end_seq =	 ntohl(sp[i].end_seq);
> +	for (i = 0; i < num_sacks; i++) {
> +		__u32 start_seq = sp[i].start_seq;
> +		__u32 end_seq = sp[i].end_seq;
 ...
>  		}
>  		tp->recv_sack_cache[i].start_seq = start_seq;
>  		tp->recv_sack_cache[i].end_seq = end_seq;

Ok, and now the sack cache and the real sack blocks are
stored in net-endian and this works out because we only
make direct equality comparisons with the recv_sack_cache[]
entry values?
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