netdev - Re: [GIT]: Networking

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Message-ID: <4A37F495.9030101@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:37:57 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking

David Miller a écrit :
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:59:34 -0700 (PDT)
> 
>> At the very least, add a helper function for "do I actually have 
>> outstanding allocations" or something like that. IOW, do a 
>>
>> 	/*
>> 	 * Comment here about that magical "1"
>> 	 */
>> 	static inline int sk_has_allocations(struct sock *sk)
>> 	{
>> 		return atomic_read(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc) > 1 ||
>> 			atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc);
>> 	}
>>
>> and then make the various network protocols use that, rather than 
>> open-coding some random internal implementation magic.
> 
> I agree, this should be handled with a helper function
> abstraction rather than putting "1" checks all over the place.

Fair enough, I'll submit an updated patch in following hour.

Thank you
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