netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 00/12] tcp: Refactor bhash2 and remove sk_bind2

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Message-ID: <4d040834d0391cce77a333b3ea577cb130fdc72f.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:18:38 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>, "David S. Miller"
	 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
	 <kuba@...nel.org>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Cc: Coco Li <lixiaoyan@...gle.com>, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@...il.com>, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 00/12] tcp: Refactor bhash2 and remove
 sk_bind2_node.

On Mon, 2023-10-23 at 12:02 -0700, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> This series refactors code around bhash2 and remove some bhash2-specific
> fields, sock.sk_bind2_node, and inet_timewait_sock.tw_bind2_node.
> 
>   patch 1      : optimise bind() for non-wildcard v4-mapped-v6 address
>   patch 2 -  4 : optimise bind() conflict tests
>   patch 5 - 12 : Link bhash2 to bhash and unlink sk from bhash2 to
>                  remove sk_bind2_node
> 
> The patch 8 will trigger a false-positive error by checkpatch.
> 
> This series will affect the recent work by Coco Li reorganising major
> structs.

Given the above implicit dependency, the fact the the struct reorg is
almost in a ready state, that we are at the end of the cycle and that
this series has the potential to bring some non trivial side effect, I
think it would be better to post-pone this series to the next cycle.

Cheers,

Paolo