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

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Dec 23 2010 - 04:14:39 EST


Le jeudi 23 dÃcembre 2010 Ã 10:03 +0100, Jiri Kosina a Ãcrit :
> 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.
>

You dont understand what I said. Please read again.

To me I prefer you _finish_ the cleanup so that we have :

if (some condition) {
reset:
}

out:

You remove two "goto" in the process.

Is that clear now ?



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