netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: SYN packets are now simply consumed

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Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:50:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: SYN packets are now simply consumed

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:13:01 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> We now have proper per-listener but also per network namespace counters
> for SYN packets that might be dropped.
> 
> We replace the kfree_skb() by consume_skb() to be drop monitor [1]
> friendly, and remove an obsolete comment.
> FastOpen SYN packets can carry payload in them just fine.
> 
> [1] perf record -a -g -e skb:kfree_skb sleep 1; perf report
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied.