From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hannes@stressinduktion.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/0] reciprocal_divide update
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:20:01 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140121.232001.48714613002250339.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1390354181-5080-1-git-send-email-hannes@stressinduktion.org>
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 02:29:38 +0100
> This patch is on top of aee636c4809fa5 ("bpf: do not use reciprocal
> divide") from Eric that sits in net tree. It will not create a merge
> conflict, but it depends on this one, so we suggest, if possible, to
> merge net into net-next.
>
> We are proposing this change with only small modifications from the
> v2 version, namely updating the name of trim to reciprocal_scale
> (as commented on by Ben Hutchings and Eric Dumazet, thanks!).
>
> We thought about introducing the reciprocal_divide algorithm in
> parallel to the one already used by the kernel but faced organizational
> issues, leading us to the conclusion that it is best to just replace
> the old one: We could not come up with names for the different
> implementations and also with a way to describe the differences to
> guide developers which one to choose in which situation. This is
> because we cannot specify the correct semantics for the version
> which is currently used by the kernel. Altough it seems to not be
> causing problems in the kernel, we cannot surely say so in the
> case of flex_array for the future. Current usage seems ok, but
> future users could run into problems.
Series applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-22 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-22 1:29 [PATCH net-next v5 0/0] reciprocal_divide update Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-22 1:29 ` [PATCH net-next v5 1/3] random32: add prandom_u32_max and convert open coded users Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-22 1:29 ` [PATCH net-next v5 2/3] net: introduce reciprocal_scale helper and convert users Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-22 1:29 ` [PATCH net-next v5 3/3] reciprocal_divide: update/correction of the algorithm Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-01-22 7:20 ` David Miller [this message]
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