netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25 3/3] Uninline the inet_twsk

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Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:53:51 +0100
From:	Ingo Oeser <netdev@...eo.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	xemul@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25 3/3] Uninline the inet_twsk_put function

Hi David,

David Miller schrieb:
> "inet_timewait_sock" begins with a "struct sock_common"
> which is where the atomic_t is, and:
> 
> #define tw_refcnt		__tw_common.skc_refcnt
> 
> So you would have to change struct sock_common over to kref, and thus
> the entire networking, in order to make such a change.

Ok, that sounds too much. Many thanks for following up and taking the time
to explain it.
 
> But you would have seen this instantly if you had spent 5 seconds
> looking at how these datastructures are defined.  Instead you choose
> to make me do it and explain it to you instead.

Sorry, just matched the wrong pattern here :-)


Best Regards

Ingo Oeser
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