netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 14/17] tcp: remove pointless .dsack code

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Date:	Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:57:35 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 14/17] tcp: remove pointless .dsack code

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:54:17 +0200 (EET)

> We'll be dirty it anyway (not that I check), the first "real" statement
> in tcp_rcv_established is:
> 
> 	tp->rx_opt.saw_tstamp = 0;
> 
> ...that'll land on the same dword. :-/
> 
> I suppose the blocks are there just because they had more complexity 
> inside when they had to calculate the eff_sacks too (maybe it would
> have been better to just remove them in that drop-patch so you would
> have had less head-ache :-)).

That sounds like a good commit log entry for when you resubmit
this patch :-)
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