Re: [PATCH] Reduce number of pointer dereferences in IPv6 netfilterLOG module function dump_packet()

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Mon Nov 15 2010 - 17:02:37 EST


On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> > Le dimanche 14 novembre 2010 à 22:47 +0100, Jesper Juhl a écrit :
> > > By adding two pointer variables to
> > > net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_LOG.c::dump_packet() we can save 19 bytes of .text
> > > and many pointer dereferences.
> > >
> > > before:
> > > text data bss dec hex filename
> > > 6258 600 3088 9946 26da net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_LOG.o
> > >
> > > after:
> > > text data bss dec hex filename
> > > 6239 600 3088 9927 26c7 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_LOG.o
> > >
> > >
> > > Please Cc me on replies.
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > ip6t_LOG.c | 16 ++++++++++------
> > > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_LOG.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_LOG.c
> > > index 09c8889..51d10a5 100644
> > > --- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_LOG.c
> > > +++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_LOG.c
> [...]
> >
> > Same comment than previous patch, you add a NULL dereference.
> >
> Hopefully this is beter (same as change done to the other (ipv4) patch).
>
>
>
> Fewer pointer derefs and smaller .text size for
> net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_LOG.c::dump_packet()
>
I'm an idiot, that should of course read

"net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_LOG.c::dump_packet()"

That'll teach me not to cut'n'paste descriptions :-(

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