netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] [TCP] MTUprobe: Cleanup send queue check (no need to loop)

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Date:	Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:00:46 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Cc:	John Heffner <jheffner@....edu>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] [TCP] MTUprobe: Cleanup send queue check (no need to loop)

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:01:28PM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> The original code has striking complexity to perform a query
> which can be reduced to a very simple compare.
> 
> FIN seqno may be included to write_seq but it should not make
> any significant difference here compared to skb->len which was
> used previously. One won't end up there with SYN still queued.
> 
> Use of write_seq check guarantees that there's a valid skb in
> send_head so I removed the extra check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

OK, this one looks pretty straightforward.  I'll put it in once
we resolve the other patch.

Thanks,
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