netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 1/8] netfilter: inlined four headers files into another one.

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Date:   Thu, 8 Aug 2019 21:10:43 +0100
From:   Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@...zel.net>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:     Netfilter Devel <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Net Dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 1/8] netfilter: inlined four headers files
 into another one.

On 2019-08-08, at 13:23:55 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 03:16:58PM +0100, Jeremy Sowden wrote:
> [...]
> > +/* Called from uadd only, protected by the set spinlock.
> > + * The kadt functions don't use the comment extensions in any way.
> > + */
> > +static inline void
> > +ip_set_init_comment(struct ip_set *set, struct ip_set_comment *comment,
> > +		    const struct ip_set_ext *ext)
>
> Not related to this patch, but I think the number of inline functions
> could be reduced a bit by exporting symbols? Specifically for
> functions that are called from the netlink control plane, ie. _uadd()
> functions. I think forcing the compiler to inline this is not useful.
> This could be done in a follow up patchset.

I'll take a look.

J.

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