On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 01:50:53PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:42:53 +0200
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > virtio 1.0 doesn't use virtio_net_hdr anymore, and in fact, it's not
> > really useful since virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf includes that as the first
> > field anyway.
> > 
> > Let's drop it, precalculate header len and store within vi instead.
> > 
> > This way we can also remove struct skb_vnet_hdr.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 90 
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> > @@ -260,13 +256,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struct 
> > virtnet_info *vi,
> > 
> >     hdr = skb_vnet_hdr(skb);
> > 
> > -   if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs) {
> > -           hdr_len = sizeof hdr->mhdr;
> > -           hdr_padded_len = sizeof hdr->mhdr;
> > -   } else {
> > -           hdr_len = sizeof hdr->hdr;
> > +   hdr_len = vi->hdr_len;
> > +   if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs)
> > +           hdr_padded_len = sizeof *hdr;
> 
> sizeof without () looks weird to me.

It's how it was originally, so I think I'd rather keep it.
I kind of like it too: it stresses the fact that sizeof is not a function
and so does not actually dereference the pointer
even though it looks like it does.

We can change it with a patch on top, but should then be changed
everywhere in this file.

> > +   else
> >             hdr_padded_len = sizeof(struct padded_vnet_hdr);
> > -   }
> > 
> >     memcpy(hdr, p, hdr_len);
> > 
> 
> Otherwise:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>
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