netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/6][INET]: Consolidate inet(6)_hash

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Message-ID: <20080131130153.GP1819@ghostprotocols.net>
Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:01:53 -0200
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6][INET]: Consolidate inet(6)_hash_connect.

Em Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:32:09PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov escreveu:
> These two functions are the same except for what they call
> to "check_established" and "hash" for a socket.
> 
> This saves half-a-kilo for ipv4 and ipv6.

Good stuff!

Yesterday I was perusing tcp_hash and I think we could have the hashinfo
pointer stored perhaps in sk->sk_prot.

That way we would be able to kill tcp_hash(), inet_put_port() could
receive just sk, etc.

What do you think?

- Arnaldo
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