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

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:06:07 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	baruch@...en.org (Baruch Even)
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Seperate DSACK from SACK fast path

Baruch Even <baruch@...en.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > 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;
> 
> Yes. The only comparison we do with recv_sack_cache entries is != and
> that works for net-endian just fine.

In that case you need to use __be32 before Al Viro starts coming after
you :)
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