netdev - RE: [PATCH/RFC] net: Don't save mid batch datagram processing error for next recvmmsg call

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:33:27 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo' <acme@...nel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Linux Networking Development Mailing List 
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Caitlin Bestler <caitlin.bestler@...il.com>,
	Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...driver.com>,
	Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@...il.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Ondřej Bílka <neleai@...nam.cz>,
	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
	Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@...lab.net>,
	Steven Whitehouse <steve@...gwyn.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH/RFC] net: Don't save mid batch datagram processing error
 for next recvmmsg call

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
> 	I think this addresses the problems reported by David Laight and
> others, where errors saved on a per socket area could be delivered to a
> different thread, so I just followed David Laight's suggestion and
> stopped saving it, we'll return it only if it happens for the first
> datagram, else we return less entries than asked for.
> 
> 	Steven, IIRC you was the one that suggested using this
> mechanism, no? Do you have anything against this move?

+	return datagrams ?: err;

Inline patches, don't attach them.

Don't use non-C constructs.

	David



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