netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/7] tcp: cache result of earlier divides when mss-aligning things

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Message-Id: <20090315.201115.23510598.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:11:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	zbr@...emap.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] tcp: cache result of earlier divides when
 mss-aligning things

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:45:16 +0200 (EET)

> [PATCHv2] tcp: cache result of earlier divides when mss-aligning things
> 
> The results is very unlikely change every so often so we
> hardly need to divide again after doing that once for a
> connection. Yet, if divide still becomes necessary we
> detect that and do the right thing and again settle for
> non-divide state. Takes the u16 space which was previously
> taken by the plain xmit_size_goal.
> 
> This should take care part of the tso vs non-tso difference
> we found earlier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>

Applied.
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