netdev - Re: [PATCH 05/10] devlink: extract snapshot id allocation to helper function

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Message-ID: <20200325140854.GX11304@nanopsycho.orion>
Date:   Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:08:54 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] devlink: extract snapshot id allocation to helper
 function

Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:34:40PM CET, jacob.e.keller@...el.com wrote:
>A future change is going to implement a new devlink command to request
>a snapshot on demand. As part of this, the logic for handling the
>snapshot ids will be refactored. To simplify the snapshot id allocation
>function, move it to a separate function prefixed by `__`. This helper
>function will assume the lock is held.
>
>While no other callers will exist, it simplifies refactoring the logic
>because there is no need to complicate the function with gotos to handle
>unlocking on failure.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>