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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: 杨硕 <shanqn@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why not use the tcp_set_state() in inet_csk_listen_start()?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:02:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269421323.3213.16.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ffe582101003240113i15c48ff2g850bb209c825b11c@mail.gmail.com>

Le mercredi 24 mars 2010 à 16:13 +0800, 杨硕 a écrit :
> why use "sk->sk_state = TCP_LISTEN" rather than "tcp_set_state(sk, TCP_LISTEN)"?
> 
> TIA :)
> 
> int inet_csk_listen_start(struct sock *sk, const int nr_table_entries)
> {
> 	struct inet_sock *inet = inet_sk(sk);
> 	struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
> 	int rc = reqsk_queue_alloc(&icsk->icsk_accept_queue, nr_table_entries);
> 
> 	if (rc != 0)
> 		return rc;
> 
> 	sk->sk_max_ack_backlog = 0;
> 	sk->sk_ack_backlog = 0;
> 	inet_csk_delack_init(sk);
> 
> 	/* There is race window here: we announce ourselves listening,
> 	 * but this transition is still not validated by get_port().
> 	 * It is OK, because this socket enters to hash table only
> 	 * after validation is complete.
> 	 */
> 	sk->sk_state = TCP_LISTEN;

Because its not necessary ?

tcp_set_state() takes care of particular state transitions.

In case of inet_csk_listen_start(), old state is TCP_CLOSE, so there is
nothing special to do in tcp_set_state().




  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-24  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-24  8:13 why not use the tcp_set_state() in inet_csk_listen_start()? 杨硕
2010-03-24  9:02 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-03-25  0:49   ` 杨硕

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