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Date:	Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:22:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	sakiwit@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: remove parentheses in return statement

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:19:44 +0200

> On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 01:43 -0600, Jean Sacren wrote:
> 
>> @@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ static inline unsigned int inet_addr_hash(struct net *net, __be32 addr)
>>  {
>>  	u32 val = (__force u32) addr ^ hash_ptr(net, 8);
>>  
>> -	return ((val ^ (val >> 8) ^ (val >> 16) ^ (val >> 24)) &
>> -		(IN4_ADDR_HSIZE - 1));
>> +	return (val ^ (val >> 8) ^ (val >> 16) ^ (val >> 24)) &
>> +	       (IN4_ADDR_HSIZE - 1);
>>  }
> 
> BTW This should use a faster implementation, I'll send a patch when
> net-next is opened.

There seems to be a few spots where we want the pointer "as a 32-bit
integer" for hashing.  We were discussing arp_hashfn() and ndisc_hashfn()
the other day.

It should basically do something like:

	(u32) ((u64)ptr >> 32 | ((u32) ptr))

on 64-bit and simply (u32)(ptr) on 32-bit.
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