netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: kill pointless urg

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Date:	Fri, 3 Oct 2008 23:32:49 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: kill pointless urg_mode

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:

> It all started from me noticing that this urgent check in
> tcp_clean_rtx_queue is unnecessarily inside the loop. Then
> I took a longer look to it and found out that the users of
> urg_mode can trivially do without. Just drag snd_up with
> us when we advance.

Please hold a minute with this one while I inspect why I saw
some strange urg now in a tcpdump.

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 i.