netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: remove sock

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Message-Id: <20150128.232211.1157376728217761804.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:22:11 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hch@....de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: remove sock_iocb

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:04:53 +0100

> The sock_iocb structure is allocate on stack for each read/write-like
> operation on sockets, and contains various fields of which only the
> embedded msghdr and sometimes a pointer to the scm_cookie is ever used.
> Get rid of the sock_iocb and put a msghdr directly on the stack and pass
> the scm_cookie explicitly to netlink_mmap_sendmsg.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Looks good, applied, thanks.
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