Re: [PATCH] tcp: cleanup of cwnd initialization intcp_init_metrics()

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Thu Dec 23 2010 - 04:03:34 EST


On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Le mercredi 22 dÃcembre 2010 Ã 19:39 +0100, Jiri Kosina a Ãcrit :
> > Commit 86bcebafc5e7f5 ("tcp: fix >2 iw selection") fixed a case when
> > congestion window initialization has been mistakenly omitted by
> > introducing cwnd label and putting backwards jump from the end of the
> > function.
> >
> > This makes the code unnecessarily tricky to read and understand on a first
> > sight.
> >
> > Shuffle the code around a little bit to make it more obvious.
>
> Well in fine you have
>
> if (inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto < TCP_TIMEOUT_INIT && !tp->rx_opt.saw_tstamp)
> goto reset;
> goto out;
> reset:
>
> Is that really more obvious ? ;)

To me it seems much more obvious than goto from the very end of the
function somewhere into the middle and returning from there, but
definitely a matter of personal taste.

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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