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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: tcp_make_synack() can use alloc_skb()
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:33:12 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:50:43 +0200

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> There is no value using sock_wmalloc() in tcp_make_synack().
> 
> A listener socket only sends SYNACK packets, they are not queued in a
> socket queue, only in Qdisc and device layers, so the number of in
> flight packets is limited in these layers. We used sock_wmalloc() with
> the %force parameter set to 1 to ignore socket limits anyway.
> 
> This patch removes two atomic operations per SYNACK packet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Looks good, applied.