netdev - Re: [PATCHv3 net-next] tcp: kill pointless urg

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Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:42:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 net-next] tcp: kill pointless urg_mode

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 15:08:19 +0300 (EEST)

> On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Ok, now it's right with win probes too...
> >
> > --
> > 
> > [PATCHv2 net-next] tcp: kill pointless urg_mode
> 
> Even better this time... tcp_urg_mode moved to tcp_output.c and exchanged
> the tcp_transmit_skb checks to the original order.
> 
> --
> [PATCHv3 net-next] tcp: kill pointless urg_mode

Oops, I'll apply this one instead, of course :)
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