netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: Remove some spurious dropped packet profile hits from the passive connection accept path

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Message-ID: <1416520109.8629.44.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:48:29 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	Rick Jones <raj@...dy.usa.hp.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: Remove some spurious dropped packet
 profile hits from the passive connection accept path

On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 13:31 -0800, Rick Jones wrote:

> Do you mean when there is actually data in the SYN?

No, I mean the packet can be _dropped_ here, really.

SYN flood for example.


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