netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: remove redundant code in __tcp_retransmit

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Date:	Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:22:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ncardwell@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, ycheng@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: remove redundant code in
 __tcp_retransmit_skb()

From: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:36:51 -0400

> Remove the specialized code in __tcp_retransmit_skb() that tries to trim
> any ACKed payload preceding a FIN before we retransmit (this was added
> in 1999 in v2.2.3pre3). This trimming code was made unreachable by the
> more general code added above it that uses tcp_trim_head() to trim any
> ACKed payload, with or without a FIN (this was added in "[NET]: Add
> segmentation offload support to TCP." in 2002 circa v2.5.33).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Neal.
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