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

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Message-Id: <20120131.121510.2256411938697193634.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:15:10 -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 16:38:37 +0100

> sock_kmalloc() might be the right thing to use instead of kmalloc()

This is almost certainly the case, it's a per-socket memory
resource rather than one shared with other entities in the
stack.  Therefore sock_kmalloc() is most appropriate.

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