netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/17] dccp/tcp: constify listener sock

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Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:42:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/17] dccp/tcp: constify listener sock

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 07:39:07 -0700

> Another patch bomb to prepare lockless TCP/DCCP LISTEN handling. 
> 
> SYNACK retransmits are built and sent without listener socket
> being locked. Soon, initial SYNACK packets will have same property.
> 
> This series makes sure we did not something wrong with this model,
> by adding a const qualifier in all the paths taken from synack building
> and transmit, for IPv4/IPv6 and TCP/dccp.
> 
> The only potential problem was the rewrite of ecn bits for connections
> with DCTCP as congestion module, but this was a very minor one.
 ...
> David, to apply these patches you'll need to merge net tree into net-next
> first. Thanks !

I was able to apply them cleanly to net-next as-is, so I did so.
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