netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25] [TCP]: Move FRTO checks out from write queue abstraction funcs

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Date:	Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:51:08 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25] [TCP]: Move FRTO checks out from write queue abstraction funcs

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>
> The purpose of the tcp_advance_send_head & friends was/is to abstract
> the write queue from the TCP worker code. RB-tree wq can then be put in
> place more easily (and I'm hopefully coming to that soon). There are some
> other similar functions in tcp.h as well which currently have only a
> single caller. Please don't undo that work while DaveM is away for a short
> while :-).

Thanks for the explanation! I'll apply this patch.
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