netdev - Re: something is wrong in commit 971f10eca1 - tcp: better TCP_SKB

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Date:	Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:09:37 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Krzysztof Kolasa <kkolasa@...soft.pl>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, edumazet@...il.com,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: something is wrong in commit 971f10eca1 - tcp: better TCP_SKB_CB
 layout to reduce cache line misses

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com> wrote:
> Probably not related with this bug, but with regarding to the
> offending commit, what's the point of the memmove() in tcp_v4_rcv()
> since ip_rcv() already clears IPCB()?

Oh, ip options are actually saved in ip_rcv_finish()... Hmm, looks scary
to play with variable-length array with memmove()....
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