Re: [PATCH] netfilter: don't need to initialize instance_table

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On Thursday 2010-12-09 11:10, Changli Gao wrote:

>Since instance_table is a static array, and has been zeroed already, we
>don't need to take CPU cycles to initialize it.
>
>Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx>
>---
> net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c |    3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
>index 68e67d1..9c80d6f 100644
>--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
>+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
>@@ -893,9 +893,6 @@ static int __init nfnetlink_queue_init(void)
> {
> 	int i, status = -ENOMEM;
> 
>-	for (i = 0; i < INSTANCE_BUCKETS; i++)
>-		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&instance_table[i]);
>-
> 	netlink_register_notifier(&nfqnl_rtnl_notifier);
> 	status = nfnetlink_subsys_register(&nfqnl_subsys);
> 	if (status < 0) {

This is here for correctness and documentation. If the hlist 
implementation changed, one would have a hard time figuring out the 
callsites which then need to add the initialization back.
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