From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:39:30 +0100
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:25:54AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> Why in the world do we need indirection function call pointers
> in TCP to handle that?
To handle the case of not having a separate TIME-WAIT table
(sorry for being unclear). Or alternatively several conditionals.
The TIME-WAIT half of the hash table is most useful on
clients actually.
I mean, just double the amount you "downsize" the TCP established
hash table if it bothers you that much.
Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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