Re: [net-next PATCH v4 2/3] net: TCP thin linear timeouts

From: Ilpo Järvinen
Date: Thu Feb 18 2010 - 03:42:09 EST


On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, David Miller wrote:

> From: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:40:41 +0100
>
> > @@ -341,6 +342,8 @@ struct tcp_sock {
> > u16 advmss; /* Advertised MSS */
> > u8 frto_counter; /* Number of new acks after RTO */
> > u8 nonagle; /* Disable Nagle algorithm? */
> > + u8 thin_lto : 1,/* Use linear timeouts for thin streams */
> > + thin_undef : 7;
> >
>
> There is now a gap of 3 unused bytes here in this critical
> core TCP socket data structure.
>
> Please either find a way to avoid this hole, or document
> it with a comment.

There would be multiple bits free for use in both frto_counter and nonagle
byte.

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