netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] netfilter: take care of timewait sockets

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Date:	Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:23:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	fw@...len.de, hvtaifwkbgefbaei@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] netfilter: take care of timewait sockets

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:57:18 +0200

> David, tell me if you prefer to change TCP demux to avoid timewait,
> as I have no strong opinion.

It would be the stupidest thing ever to do the whole hash lookup
just to throw the result away just because it's a timewait socket.

> [PATCH] net: sock_edemux() should take care of timewait sockets
> 
> sock_edemux() can handle either a regular socket or a timewait socket
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.
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