netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] nf_nat: don't check if the tuple is unique when there isn't any other choice

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Message-ID: <4C56E5FB.4070406@trash.net>
Date:	Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:36:27 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] nf_nat: don't check if the tuple is unique when
 there isn't any other choice

On 31.07.2010 09:09, Changli Gao wrote:
> the tuple got from unique_tuple() doesn't need to be really unique, so the
> check for the unique tuple isn't necessary, when there isn't any other
> choice. Eliminating the unnecessary nf_nat_used_tuple() can save some CPU
> cycles too.

Applied.
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