On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:53:36AM +0100, J?rn Engel wrote: > > How is that argument special for kfree_skb? Both libc free and kfree > ignore NULL arguments and do so for good reasons.
Well with kfree there is actually a slight gain in that you are doing the check in one place. kfree_skb on the other hand is inlined so the you're actually adding bloat to many places that simply don't need it. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
