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From: Varun Chandramohan <varunc@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug•ch>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org, kaber@trash•net,
	socketcan@hartkopp•net, shemminger@linux-foundation•org,
	krkumar2@in•ibm.com, varuncha@in•ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4 - rev 2] Initilize and populate age field
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:02:29 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CACD4D.3010408@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070821112735.GO32236@postel.suug.ch>

Thomas Graf wrote:
> * Varun Chandramohan <varunc@linux•vnet.ibm.com> 2007-08-21 16:52
>   
>> I know its a bit confusing but let me explain the reason. In my first
>> version patch i used fn_hash_insert() (place where alias is created)as
>> place to insert my current time in the age field.
>> This will eventually call fib_dump_info() for inserting the age filed
>> attribute into the skb. Now in both places i have to call
>> do_gettimeofday(). Its obvious that i need it in fn_hash_insert(), its
>> also need in fib_dump_info() as it is the same function called for
>> retrieving and dumping the age value to the userspace. So as you are
>> aware that before we dump it to userspace we need to subtract the value
>> with current time i need to call do_gettimeofday() twice. To avoid this
>> i did as above.
>>     
>
> At least put a comment there, it's far from obvious.
>   
ok, thanks for the suggestion. Ill put a comment on that.
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      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-21 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-20  8:16 [PATCH 3/4 - rev 2] Initilize and populate age field Varun Chandramohan
2007-08-21 10:55 ` Thomas Graf
2007-08-21 11:22   ` Varun Chandramohan
2007-08-21 11:27     ` Thomas Graf
2007-08-21 11:32       ` Varun Chandramohan [this message]

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