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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com, andi@firstfloor.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	minyard@acm.org, christian@myri.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: avoid a pair of dst_hold()/dst_release() in ip_append_data()
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:22:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081125022232.GE6703@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081124.155531.135918197.davem@davemloft.net>

> Thinking more I believe we can do similar tricks for all TCP
> transmit traffic.

Sounds reasonable.

> 
> Packets bound to sockets never outlive those sockets (and thus
> their cached routes) unless we skb_orphan().
> 
> The only not covered case is where the socket cached route
> is reset or changed.  We could defer the dst put until the
> transmit queue reaches a certain point, kind of like a retransmit
> queue RCU :-)
> 
> Just some ideas...

netfilter makes it somewhat tricky, for compatibility you would
need to reclone the route on the fly.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-25  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-24  8:57 [RFC] Could we avoid touching dst->refcount in some cases ? Eric Dumazet
2008-11-24  9:42 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-24 10:14   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-24 11:24     ` [PATCH] net: avoid a pair of dst_hold()/dst_release() in ip_append_data() Eric Dumazet
2008-11-24 13:59       ` [PATCH] net: avoid a pair of dst_hold()/dst_release() in ip_push_pending_frames() Eric Dumazet
2008-11-25  0:07         ` David Miller
2008-11-24 23:55       ` [PATCH] net: avoid a pair of dst_hold()/dst_release() in ip_append_data() David Miller
2008-11-25  2:22         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-11-24 11:27     ` [RFC] Could we avoid touching dst->refcount in some cases ? Andi Kleen
2008-11-24 23:36       ` David Miller
2008-11-24 23:39     ` David Miller
2008-11-25  4:43       ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-25  5:00         ` David Miller
2008-11-26  0:00           ` [PATCH] net: release skb->dst in sock_queue_rcv_skb() Eric Dumazet
2008-11-26  0:23             ` David Miller
2008-11-26  2:04             ` David Miller
2008-11-26  7:39               ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-26  9:08                 ` David Miller
2008-12-17 11:25             ` net-next: broken IP_PKTINFO [was Re: [PATCH] net: release skb->dst in sock_queue_rcv_skb()] Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-18  3:34               ` net-next: broken IP_PKTINFO David Miller
2008-12-18  5:59                 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-12-18  6:17                   ` David Miller

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