Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: ipv4: refine the logic for determining daddrin ip_queue_xmit.

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Jan 14 2013 - 23:56:59 EST


On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 12:47 +0800, Harvey Yang wrote:
> The destination address daddr is faddr if source route option is set, otherwise it is inet_daddr. So use if-else to assign the value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Harvey Yang <harvey.huawei.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
> index 3e98ed2..22b738c 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
> @@ -349,10 +349,10 @@ int ip_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi *fl)
> __be32 daddr;
>
> /* Use correct destination address if we have options. */
> - daddr = inet->inet_daddr;
> if (inet_opt && inet_opt->opt.srr)
> daddr = inet_opt->opt.faddr;
> -
> + else
> + daddr = inet->inet_daddr;
> /* If this fails, retransmit mechanism of transport layer will
> * keep trying until route appears or the connection times
> * itself out.

Current code is faster, srr is not often used.



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