netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: small optim in tcp_show

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Date:	Mon, 11 May 2015 09:16:12 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: small optim in tcp_show_info()

On Wed, 06 May 2015 11:33:23 -0700
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Kernel can give us smaller tcp_info than our.
> 
> We copy the kernel provided structure and fill with 0
> the remaining part.
> 
> Lets clear only the missing part to save some cycles, as we intend to
> slightly increase tcp_info size in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, I don't think other people will have enough sockets to notice the difference :-)
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