netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] tipc: remove pre-allocated message header in link struct

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Date:	Sun, 06 Mar 2016 23:01:50 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jon.maloy@...csson.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, paul.gortmaker@...driver.com,
	parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@...csson.com, richard.alpe@...csson.com,
	ying.xue@...driver.com, maloy@...jonn.com,
	tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] tipc: remove pre-allocated message header
 in link struct

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Date: Thu,  3 Mar 2016 14:23:21 -0500

> Until now, we have kept a pre-allocated protocol message header
> aggregated into struct tipc_link. Apart from adding unnecessary
> footprint to the link instances, this requires extra code both to
> initialize and re-initialize it.
> 
> We now remove this sub-optimization. This change also makes it
> possible to clean up the function tipc_build_proto_msg() and remove
> a couple of small functions that were accessing the mentioned header.
> In particular, we can replace all occurrences of the local function
> call link_own_addr(link) with the generic tipc_own_addr(net).
> 
> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>

Applied, thanks.