Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: replace macros net_random and net_srandom with direct calls to prandom

From: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:52:45 +0100

On 01/11/2014 07:00 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 09:52:37AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Sat, 2014-01-11 at 07:15 -0500, Aruna-Hewapathirane wrote:
>>> This patch removes the net_random and net_srandom macros and replaces
>>> them with direct calls to the prandom ones. As new commits only seem to
>>> use prandom_u32 there is no use to keep them around.
>>> This change makes it easier to grep for users of prandom_u32.
>>
>> Seems sensible.
>>
>> Also, there may be some value in a future patch
>> to use reciprocal_divide in a few places
>>
>>> diff --git a/net/802/garp.c b/net/802/garp.c
>>> @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static void garp_join_timer_arm(struct garp_applicant *app)
>>>   {
>>>   	unsigned long delay;
>>>
>>> -	delay = (u64)msecs_to_jiffies(garp_join_time) * net_random() >> 32;
>>> +	delay = (u64)msecs_to_jiffies(garp_join_time) * prandom_u32() >> 32;
>>
>> reciprocal_divide()
>
> Does reciprocal_divide() make sense without reciprocal_value() from a
> stylish point of view?

No. ;-)

There was already some work, but I didn't have time to finish it:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg249395.html

Maybe it's time that we should revisit that.

> I wouldn't do that just because it expands into the same code.
>
> Greetings,
>
>    Hannes