netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: Remove some spurious dropped packet profile hits from the passive connection accept path

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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:51:29 -0800
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: Remove some spurious dropped packet profile
 hits from the passive connection accept path

On 11/20/2014 01:48 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 13:31 -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
>
>> Do you mean when there is actually data in the SYN?
>
> No, I mean the packet can be _dropped_ here, really.
>
> SYN flood for example.

Ah.  I did not pick-up on that.  Seeing the kfree_skb() in the original 
code I thought it was the end of the line for the segment.

rick

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