Re: [PATCH net-next 01/14] tcp: Add clean acked data hook

2018-03-21 Thread David Miller
From: Rao Shoaib Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:16:48 -0700 > I agree, in fact I was using function pointers for the exact reason, > to change the functionality of a function. I asked Dave about the > use and he said No (Also note that the relevant CPU optimizations > have been turned off on selected

Re: [PATCH net-next 01/14] tcp: Add clean acked data hook

2018-03-21 Thread Rao Shoaib
On 03/21/2018 04:21 AM, Boris Pismenny wrote: On 3/20/2018 10:36 PM, Rao Shoaib wrote: On 03/19/2018 07:44 PM, Saeed Mahameed wrote: From: Ilya Lesokhin Called when a TCP segment is acknowledged. Could be used by application protocols who hold additional metadata associated with the str

Re: [PATCH net-next 01/14] tcp: Add clean acked data hook

2018-03-21 Thread Boris Pismenny
On 3/20/2018 10:36 PM, Rao Shoaib wrote: On 03/19/2018 07:44 PM, Saeed Mahameed wrote: From: Ilya Lesokhin Called when a TCP segment is acknowledged. Could be used by application protocols who hold additional metadata associated with the stream data. This is required by TLS device offload

Re: [PATCH net-next 01/14] tcp: Add clean acked data hook

2018-03-20 Thread Rao Shoaib
On 03/19/2018 07:44 PM, Saeed Mahameed wrote: From: Ilya Lesokhin Called when a TCP segment is acknowledged. Could be used by application protocols who hold additional metadata associated with the stream data. This is required by TLS device offload to release metadata associated with acknowl

[PATCH net-next 01/14] tcp: Add clean acked data hook

2018-03-19 Thread Saeed Mahameed
From: Ilya Lesokhin Called when a TCP segment is acknowledged. Could be used by application protocols who hold additional metadata associated with the stream data. This is required by TLS device offload to release metadata associated with acknowledged TLS records. Signed-off-by: Ilya Lesokhin