netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp/dccp: avoid one atomic operation for timewait hashdance

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Message-Id: <20171213.143349.404602503188166520.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:33:49 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp/dccp: avoid one atomic operation for
 timewait hashdance

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:25:12 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> First, rename __inet_twsk_hashdance() to inet_twsk_hashdance()
> 
> Then, remove one inet_twsk_put() by setting tw_refcnt to 3 instead
> of 4, but adding a fat warning that we do not have the right to access
> tw anymore after inet_twsk_hashdance()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.