netdev - [TCP] Avoid a divide in tcp_mtu

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Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:32:41 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [TCP] Avoid a divide in tcp_mtu_probing()

tcp_mtu_to_mss() being signed, compiler might emit an integer divide
to compute tcp_mtu_to_mss()/2 .

Using a right shift is OK here and less expensive.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
index ea111e9..ea85bc0 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static void tcp_mtu_probing(struct inet_connection_sock *icsk, struct sock *sk)
 			struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 			int mss;
 
-			mss = tcp_mtu_to_mss(sk, icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low)/2;
+			mss = tcp_mtu_to_mss(sk, icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low) >> 1;
 			mss = min(sysctl_tcp_base_mss, mss);
 			mss = max(mss, 68 - tp->tcp_header_len);
 			icsk->icsk_mtup.search_low = tcp_mss_to_mtu(sk, mss);
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