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From: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: xemul@openvz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25 3/3] Uninline the inet_twsk_put function
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:53:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712211853.52230.netdev@axxeo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071220.160840.140150524.davem@davemloft.net>

Hi David,

David Miller schrieb:
> "inet_timewait_sock" begins with a "struct sock_common"
> which is where the atomic_t is, and:
> 
> #define tw_refcnt		__tw_common.skc_refcnt
> 
> So you would have to change struct sock_common over to kref, and thus
> the entire networking, in order to make such a change.

Ok, that sounds too much. Many thanks for following up and taking the time
to explain it.
 
> But you would have seen this instantly if you had spent 5 seconds
> looking at how these datastructures are defined.  Instead you choose
> to make me do it and explain it to you instead.

Sorry, just matched the wrong pattern here :-)


Best Regards

Ingo Oeser

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-21 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-19 10:56 [PATCH net-2.6.25 3/3] Uninline the inet_twsk_put function Pavel Emelyanov
2007-12-20 18:32 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-12-21  0:08   ` David Miller
2007-12-21 17:53     ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
2007-12-20 23:33 ` David Miller

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