netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] udp: RCU handling for Unicast packets.

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Message-ID: <49094B79.4010805@cosmosbay.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:51:53 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, minyard@....org, shemminger@...tta.com,
	benny+usenet@...rsen.dk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	johnpol@....mipt.ru, christian@...i.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] udp: RCU handling for Unicast packets.

David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:08:30 +0100
> 
>> @@ -1746,7 +1753,7 @@ void __init udp_table_init(struct udp_table *table)
>>  	int i;
>>  
>>  	for (i = 0; i < UDP_HTABLE_SIZE; i++) {
>> -		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&table->hash[i].head);
>> +		table->hash[i].head.first = (struct hlist_node *)i;
> 
> Please hide this behind some list.h interface macro, even something
> as simple as INIT_HLIST_HEAD_NULLS(X, index) would suffice.
> 
> And as Corey said, the code needs more comments for something as
> clever as this! :-)
> 

Yes I agree 100%, please give me one day to prepare a real patch,
or else akpm will kill us :)



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