netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: avoid unnecessary read of jiffies

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Date:   Tue, 7 Feb 2017 17:56:59 +0100
From:   Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: avoid unnecessary read of jiffies

On 07/02/17 17:46, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> Jiffies is volatile so read it once.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
> ---
>  net/bridge/br_fdb.c   | 6 ++++--
>  net/bridge/br_input.c | 6 ++++--
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 

Yep, good catch. Maybe you can use READ_ONCE() even though it's not needed just
to show why it's done this way.

Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>