netdev - Re: [RFC] tcp: add support for scheduling TCP options on TCP sockets

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Date:	Wed, 07 May 2014 13:24:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	octavian.purdila@...el.com
Cc:	christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] tcp: add support for scheduling TCP options on TCP
 sockets

From: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 18:17:08 +0300

> That would require adding a new field to sk_buff to keep track of how
> much we need to copy in pskb_copy. Fortunately it seems it has some
> holes we could use.
> 
> David, does that seem reasonable?

As long as you can find a way to delete something in sk_buff to make
room for it sure.

I am very serious, I don't want sk_buff to turn into something like mm_struct
which seems to double in size every time I look at it.
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