netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Remove 'unlikely' qualifier in skb_steal

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:09:37 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, shemminger@...tta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Remove 'unlikely' qualifier in
 skb_steal_sock()

On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 16:03 -0700, Vijay Subramanian wrote:
> With early demux enabled by default for TCP flows, there is high chance that
> skb->sk will be non-null. 'unlikely()' was removed from __inet_lookup_skb() but
> maybe it can be removed from skb_steal_sock() as well.
> 
> Note: skb_steal_sock() is also called by __inet6_lookup_skb() and
> __udp4_lib_lookup_skb() but they are protected by their own 'unlikely' calls.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@...il.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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