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List:       openvz-devel
Subject:    [Devel] Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25 3/3] Uninline the inet_twsk_put function
From:       netdev () axxeo ! de (Ingo Oeser)
Date:       2007-12-21 17:54:11
Message-ID: 200712211853.52230.netdev () axxeo ! de
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Hi David,

David Miller schrieb:
> "inet_timewait_sock" begins with a "struct sock_common"
> which is where the atomic_t is, and:
> 
> #define tw_refcnt		__tw_common.skc_refcnt
> 
> So you would have to change struct sock_common over to kref, and thus
> the entire networking, in order to make such a change.

Ok, that sounds too much. Many thanks for following up and taking the time
to explain it.
 
> But you would have seen this instantly if you had spent 5 seconds
> looking at how these datastructures are defined.  Instead you choose
> to make me do it and explain it to you instead.

Sorry, just matched the wrong pattern here :-)


Best Regards

Ingo Oeser



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