netdev - Re: [net-next v2] openvswitch: Simplify do_execute

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Message-Id: <20170129.190051.1544744982724865560.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sun, 29 Jan 2017 19:00:51 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     azhou@....org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next v2] openvswitch: Simplify do_execute_actions().

From: Andy Zhou <azhou@....org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:45:28 -0800

> do_execute_actions() implements a worthwhile optimization: in case
> an output action is the last action in an action list, skb_clone()
> can be avoided by outputing the current skb. However, the
> implementation is more complicated than necessary.  This patch
> simplify this logic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@....org>
> ---
> v1->v2:  drop skb NULL check in do_output()

Applied, thank you.