Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: minor optimization for calculating packets_out in tcp connect

From: David Miller
Date: Sat Dec 15 2018 - 14:28:03 EST


From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 04:59:00 -0800

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> On 12/15/2018 01:33 AM, Yafang Shao wrote:
>> When we building a syn packet, the tcp_skb_pcount(skb) is always 1,
>> which is set in tcp_init_nondata_skb().
>> Regarding the syn_data, it is set through
>> memcpy(syn_data->cb, syn->cb, sizeof(syn->cb)),
>> which is always 1 as well.
>>
>> So we don't need to use tcp_skb_pcount(skb), that could give us a
>> little improvement.
>>
>
> I dunno, I find current code more self-documented.
>
> This is not fast path, so I would suggest we keep it.

I agree, I won't be applying this.