netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] inet: includes a sock_common in request

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Date:	Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:18:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] inet: includes a sock_common in request_sock

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:21:29 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> TCP listener refactoring, part 5 :
> 
> We want to be able to insert request sockets (SYN_RECV) into main
> ehash table instead of the per listener hash table to allow RCU
> lookups and remove listener lock contention.
> 
> This patch includes the needed struct sock_common in front
> of struct request_sock
> 
> This means there is no more inet6_request_sock IPv6 specific
> structure.
> 
> Following inet_request_sock fields were renamed as they became
> macros to reference fields from struct sock_common.
> Prefix ir_ was chosen to avoid name collisions.
> 
> loc_port   -> ir_loc_port
> loc_addr   -> ir_loc_addr
> rmt_addr   -> ir_rmt_addr
> rmt_port   -> ir_rmt_port
> iif        -> ir_iif
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Looks good, applied, thanks Eric.
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