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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20080131.051507.126025471.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:15:07 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	acme@...hat.com
Cc:	xemul@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6][INET]: Consolidate inet(6)_hash_connect.

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:01:53 -0200

> 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?

Sounds good to me.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html