From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: md5: rcu conversion Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:14:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20120131.121431.1826507465549191697.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1328000712.2422.16.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> <1328016828.2297.8.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> <1328023113.2297.23.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shawn.lu@ericsson.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, xiaoclu@gmail.com To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:50914 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752989Ab2AaROi (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:14:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1328023113.2297.23.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:18:33 +0100 > In order to be able to support proper RST messages for TCP MD5 flows, we > need to allow access to MD5 keys without locking listener socket. > > This conversion is a nice cleanup, and shrinks size of timewait sockets > by 80 bytes. > > IPv6 code reuses generic code found in IPv4 instead of duplicating it. > > Control path uses GFP_KERNEL allocations instead of GFP_ATOMIC. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Beautiful :-) Applied, thanks for doing this work Eric.