netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: md5: rcu conversion

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:14:31 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	shawn.lu@...csson.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, xiaoclu@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: md5: rcu conversion

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:18:33 +0100

> In order to be able to support proper RST messages for TCP MD5 flows, we
> need to allow access to MD5 keys without locking listener socket.
> 
> This conversion is a nice cleanup, and shrinks size of timewait sockets
> by 80 bytes.
> 
> IPv6 code reuses generic code found in IPv4 instead of duplicating it.
> 
> Control path uses GFP_KERNEL allocations instead of GFP_ATOMIC.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Beautiful :-)  Applied, thanks for doing this work Eric.
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