netdev - Re: [v1 PATCH 7/14] netfilter: Use rhashtable_lookup instead of lookup

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Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:02:20 +0000
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [v1 PATCH 7/14] netfilter: Use rhashtable_lookup instead of
 lookup_compare

On 20.03, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 08:14:15PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 08:28:42AM +0000, Thomas Graf wrote:
> >
> > > The reason for the indirection was to not bypass the abstraction
> > > nft_data_cmp() provides.
> > > 
> > > No objection to the change but maybe leave a comment in
> > > nft_data_cmp() that if one changes nft_data_cmp() one needs to
> > > look at nft_hash and see if the direct use of rhashtable_lookup()
> > > is still valid.
> > 
> > Well we could preserve nft_data_cmp if necessary.  It'll just
> > mean an extra indirect call to do the compare when needed.
> 
> FWIW I've decided to ditch nft_data_cmp unless someone can show
> me that it's really necessary.  The reason is that nft_hash_lookup
> already uses memcmp instead of nft_data_cmp.

I don't care about nft_data_cmp, but I do care about being able to
override the compare function.
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