Le mardi 21 septembre 2010 à 09:38 +0000, Jarek Poplawski a écrit :
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> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

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> I hope you're right with this.
> 
> > 
> > I liked the :
> > 
> > <check everything without changing state>
> > if something wrong
> > 	goto slow_path
> > else
> > 	<OK, lets do destructive things>
> > 
> 
> But it's an optimization of the "unlikely" case btw. ;-)
> 

This is a bug fix, in a complex function.

in -next branch, we can try to be smart, adding more code in slow_path
to revert what was done in the hope fast path would be taken.
And pray we dont add another bug :)


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