netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: relax listening

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Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:24:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: relax listening_hash operations

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:24:58 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> softirq handlers use RCU protection to lookup listeners,
> and write operations all happen from process context.
> We do not need to block BH for dump operations.
> 
> Also SYN_RECV since request sockets are stored in the ehash table :
> 
>  1) inet_diag_dump_icsk() no longer need to clear
>     cb->args[3] and cb->args[4] that were used as cursors while
>     iterating the old per listener hash table.
> 
>  2) Also factorize a test : No need to scan listening_hash[]
>     if r->id.idiag_dport is not zero.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.