netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: remove a bogus TSO split

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Date:	Fri, 13 Dec 2013 09:54:11 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
	Nandita Dukkipati <nanditad@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: remove a bogus TSO split

On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 11:22 -0500, Neal Cardwell wrote:

> Yes, I like your ideas to use mss_now instead, move
> tcp_minshall_update() to tcp_output.c (next to tcp_minshall_check()?),
> and update the comment in front of tcp_mss_split_point().
> 
> And given that mss_now is more sane than tcp_skb_mss(skb) (which is
> zero for one-MSS skbs) I think maybe we can make it something like:
> 
>  static inline void tcp_minshall_update(struct tcp_sock *tp, unsigned
> int mss_now,
>                                        const struct sk_buff *skb)
>  {
>          if (skb->len < tcp_skb_pcount(skb) * mss_now)
>                 tp->snd_sml = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq;
>  }

This was indeed what I got ;)




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