Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c: remove some inlines

[Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>]

On Monday 17 December 2007 14:47, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Please CC netfilter-devel on netfilter patches.
>
> Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > Hi Patrick, Harald,
> >
> > I was working on unrelated problem and noticed that ip_tables.c
> > seem to abuse inline. I prepared a patch which removes inlines
> > except those which are used by packet matching code
> > (and thus are really performance-critical).
> > I added comments explaining that remaining inlines are
> > performance critical.
> >
> > Result as reported by size:
> >
> >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > -  6451     380      88    6919    1b07 ip_tables.o
> > +  6339     348      72    6759    1a67 ip_tables.o
> >
> > Please take this patch into netfilter queue.
>
> This clashes with my pending patches, which I'll push upstream
> today. I also spent some time resyncing ip_tables and ip6_tables
> so a diff of both (with some sed'ing) shows only the actual
> differences, so please update ip6_tables as well.

I would be happy to rediff the patch.

Which tree should I sync against in order to not collide
with your changes?
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vda
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