netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] inet: remove redundant backlog setting in listen(2)

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Date:   Tue, 9 Oct 2018 07:00:23 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] inet: remove redundant backlog setting in listen(2)

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 5:05 AM Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com> wrote:
>
> The sk_max_ack_backlog will be set in the caller inet_listen() and
> dccp_listen_start(), so it is redundant to set it in
> inet_csk_listen_start().
> Just remove this setting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
> index dfd5009..cdd5c95 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
> @@ -871,7 +871,6 @@ int inet_csk_listen_start(struct sock *sk, int backlog)
>
>         reqsk_queue_alloc(&icsk->icsk_accept_queue);
>
> -       sk->sk_max_ack_backlog = backlog;
>         sk->sk_ack_backlog = 0;
>         inet_csk_delack_init(sk);


You got it wrong again. Can you read my feedbacks one more time ?

This setting is not redundant, unless you move the ones in
inet_listen() and inet_dccp_listen() earlier.