netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net] tcp: Update pcount after skb

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Date:	Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:23:55 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net] tcp: Update pcount after skb_pull() during mtu
 probing

On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 11:02 -0700, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:

> tcp_trim_head() does not take the mss_now.
> Is it fine to have mss_now <= tcp_skb_mss(skb)? or we can depend on
> the tcp_init_tso_segs() in the tcp_write_xmit() to take care of it?

It should be fine : packets not yet sent have tcp_skb_pcount()==0,
so that tcp_init_tso_segs() can do the computation at the right time.



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