netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] ipv4: Early TCP socket demux.

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:03:26 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ipv4: Early TCP socket demux.

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 17:54 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:21:06 +0100
> 
> > This works only because MAX_INET_PROTOS is defined as 256, so that hash
> > == protocol.  If we were ever to change MAX_INET_PROTOS then we would
> > need to add a whole lot of protocol checks, but this isn't particularly
> > obvious!  Perhaps it would be better to remove the 'hashing' altogether?
> 
> We never have changed the value and we never will.

Well that's what I expected.

> The hash is perfect, what's the big deal?

It obscures what we're really doing and relying on.

Ben.

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