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[Xen-devel] Re: [3/11] [NET] front: Stop using rx->id


On 27 Jul 2006, at 14:30, Herbert Xu wrote:

But wouldn't the xennet_get_* functions wipe the entries, only to be
immediately filled in again by the assignment to e.g.,
np->rx_skbs[requeue_idx], so it would all work out okay (except a
needless wipe-then-rewrite)?

That was the reason of having two loops instead of the one. In the first
loop, we're not moving entries so we don't assign rx_skbs/grant_rx_ref
at all.  In the second loop, we know that requeue_idx != i so we're
always moving entries forward in which case clearing the original position
is necessary.

It's not a time critical piece of code. I'd much rather have a single loop that wastes some small amount of time. That routine is confusing enough as it is. :-)

Also, what about putting the array-initialising loop back: reasonable?

 -- Keir


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