On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 23:39 -0400, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh wrote:
> From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soh...@google.com>
> 
> The SKBTX_ACK_TSTAMP flag is set in skb_shinfo->tx_flags when
> the timestamp of the TCP acknowledgement should be reported on
> error queue. Since accessing skb_shinfo is likely to incur a
> cache-line miss at the time of receiving the ack, the
> txstamp_ack bit was added in tcp_skb_cb, which is set iff
> the SKBTX_ACK_TSTAMP flag is set for an skb. This makes
> SKBTX_ACK_TSTAMP flag redundant.
> 
> Remove the SKBTX_ACK_TSTAMP and instead use the txstamp_ack bit
> everywhere.
> 
> Note that this frees one bit in shinfo->tx_flags.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soh...@google.com>
> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <ka...@fb.com>
> Suggested-by: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>


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