netdev - Re: [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v4)

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Message-ID: <20100114095254.5cf7faa0@nehalam>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:52:54 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	Michael Breuer <mbreuer@...jas.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, mikem@...g3k.org,
	flyboy@...il.com, rjw@...k.pl, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v4)

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:14:45 +0000
Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> wrote:

> This makes it safe, but it still resembles the "short term fix"
> according do David's opinion.
> 
> This change seems to affect dev->stats too. Since they are not
> updated in sky2_tx_clean(). Btw, I hope "&" is some optimization
> because it's less readable than "&&".

Stats don't matter for packets flushed during device reset.

The & is because in the most common case device is up,
and we don't want the additional conditional branch.
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