Em Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 01:16:53PM +0100, Gerrit Renker escreveu:
> 
> |  > +/* rate-limit for syncs in reply to sequence-invalid packets; RFC 4340, 
> 7.5.4 */
> |  > +int sysctl_dccp_sync_ratelimit       __read_mostly = HZ / 8;
> |  
> |  Why the extra spaces/tabs before __read_mostly? 
> This is for consistency with the sysctls below, the whole paragraph looks 
> like this:
> 
> /* the maximum queue length for tx in packets. 0 is no limit */
> int sysctl_dccp_tx_qlen         __read_mostly = 5;
> 
> /* sysctl variables governing numbers of retransmission attempts */
> int sysctl_dccp_request_retries __read_mostly = TCP_SYN_RETRIES;
> int sysctl_dccp_retries1        __read_mostly = TCP_RETR1;
> int sysctl_dccp_retries2        __read_mostly = TCP_RETR2;
> 
> /* rate-limit for syncs in reply to sequence-invalid packets; RFC 4340, 7.5.4 
> */
> int sysctl_dccp_sync_ratelimit  __read_mostly = HZ / 8;
> 
> Sigh - I just wanted to be `neat', but each maintainer has a different 
> conception of that :)

Ok, sorry for the noise on this one, should be ok, at least for me ;-)
 
> |  One more: 
> |  In linux networking code what has been the most accepted form for
> |  multiline expressions is:
> |  
> |                  if (time_after(now, (dp->dccps_rate_last +
> |                                       sysctl_dccp_sync_ratelimit))) {
> |  
> |  Either form produces the same code, but as the later is what I, David
> |  and others are most confortable with and have been using for quite a
> |  while, 
> Please excuse my ignorance: that was simply something I didn't know, and thus 
> it is good that
> it is on the list, so that others can also adapt this. Thanks for explaining.
> 
> It is _very_ important since in CCID3/CCID4 variable names are all very long 
> (the drafts are
> also long), and lots of calculations.
> 
> Will fix that and put the result in the tree.

Great, thank you.

- Arnaldo
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