netdev - Re: [PATCH 9/9] [TCP]: Avoid clearing sacktag hint in trivial situations

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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:41:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] [TCP]: Avoid clearing sacktag hint in trivial
 situations

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:17:52 +0300

> There's no reason to clear the sacktag skb hint when small part
> of the rexmit queue changes. Account changes (if any) instead when
> fragmenting/collapsing. RTO/FRTO do not touch SACKED_ACKED bits so
> no need to discard SACK tag hint at all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Applied, and I followed it up with this coding style fixlet.

Thanks!

commit e3723ad866a1e0690f3bc32443180ec1f6657f4a
Author: David S. Miller <davem@...set.davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu Sep 20 11:40:37 2007 -0700

    [TCP]: Minor coding style fixup.
    
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 07b1faa..991ccdc 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -1067,14 +1067,16 @@ static inline void tcp_mib_init(void)
 }
 
 /* from STCP */
-static inline void tcp_clear_retrans_hints_partial(struct tcp_sock *tp) {
+static inline void tcp_clear_retrans_hints_partial(struct tcp_sock *tp)
+{
 	tp->lost_skb_hint = NULL;
 	tp->scoreboard_skb_hint = NULL;
 	tp->retransmit_skb_hint = NULL;
 	tp->forward_skb_hint = NULL;
 }
 
-static inline void tcp_clear_all_retrans_hints(struct tcp_sock *tp) {
+static inline void tcp_clear_all_retrans_hints(struct tcp_sock *tp)
+{
 	tcp_clear_retrans_hints_partial(tp);
 	tp->fastpath_skb_hint = NULL;
 }
-
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