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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: Remove some spurious dropped packet
 profile hits from the passive connection accept path
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:48:29 -0800
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On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 13:31 -0800, Rick Jones wrote:

> Do you mean when there is actually data in the SYN?

No, I mean the packet can be _dropped_ here, really.

SYN flood for example.