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| author | Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2012-06-03 20:33:21 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-06-04 11:27:39 -0400 |
| commit | 4aea39c11c610e411768649fdc04777903ebfe07 (patch) | |
| tree | 0389be795b0ebd8c75992eedf511e2346cfbf10f /net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | |
| parent | 90ba9b1986b5ac4b2d184575847147ea7c4280a2 (diff) | |
| download | blackbird-op-linux-4aea39c11c610e411768649fdc04777903ebfe07.tar.gz blackbird-op-linux-4aea39c11c610e411768649fdc04777903ebfe07.zip | |
tcp: tcp_make_synack() consumes dst parameter
tcp_make_synack() clones the dst, and callers release it.
We can avoid two atomic operations per SYNACK if tcp_make_synack()
consumes dst instead of cloning it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_output.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index f0b0e4414b00..c465d3e51e28 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -2442,7 +2442,16 @@ int tcp_send_synack(struct sock *sk) return tcp_transmit_skb(sk, skb, 1, GFP_ATOMIC); } -/* Prepare a SYN-ACK. */ +/** + * tcp_make_synack - Prepare a SYN-ACK. + * sk: listener socket + * dst: dst entry attached to the SYNACK + * req: request_sock pointer + * rvp: request_values pointer + * + * Allocate one skb and build a SYNACK packet. + * @dst is consumed : Caller should not use it again. + */ struct sk_buff *tcp_make_synack(struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst, struct request_sock *req, struct request_values *rvp) @@ -2462,13 +2471,14 @@ struct sk_buff *tcp_make_synack(struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst, if (cvp != NULL && cvp->s_data_constant && cvp->s_data_desired) s_data_desired = cvp->s_data_desired; skb = alloc_skb(MAX_TCP_HEADER + 15 + s_data_desired, GFP_ATOMIC); - if (skb == NULL) + if (unlikely(!skb)) { + dst_release(dst); return NULL; - + } /* Reserve space for headers. */ skb_reserve(skb, MAX_TCP_HEADER); - skb_dst_set(skb, dst_clone(dst)); + skb_dst_set(skb, dst); mss = dst_metric_advmss(dst); if (tp->rx_opt.user_mss && tp->rx_opt.user_mss < mss) |
