netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: out_of_order

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Date:	Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:35:24 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: out_of_order_queue do not use its lock

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:36:12 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> TCP out_of_order_queue lock is not used, as queue manipulation
> happens with socket lock held and we therefore use the lockless
> skb queue routines (as __skb_queue_head())
> 
> We can use __skb_queue_head_init() instead of skb_queue_head_init()
> to make this more consistent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.

We should probably at some point try to make an sk_buff_head_lite
that only has the two pointers, so that we could shrink various
structures which have queues which we use like this.
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