netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/9] net: Remove e_inval label from ip_route_input

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Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:14:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alexander.duyck@...il.com
Cc:	dsa@...ulusnetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/9] net: Remove e_inval label from
 ip_route_input_slow

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:31:06 -0700

> It is the general direction of this I don't like since it is just
> making the code uglier before you attempt to fix it.

I agree, I don't like these refactorings at all.

Some of these code paths have been this way for a decade or longer,
and are etched into the back of our skulls.

Unless there is _true_ benefit, just leave the code alone, really.

I also really don't like "un-goto" conversions at all, they generally
make the code harder to read.  And as Eric Dumazet said, unless you
carefully pair such changes with appropriate likely()/unlikely()
taggin you pessimize the code.

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