Commit 90ba9b19 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller

tcp: tcp_make_synack() can use alloc_skb()

There is no value using sock_wmalloc() in tcp_make_synack().

A listener socket only sends SYNACK packets, they are not queued in a
socket queue, only in Qdisc and device layers, so the number of in
flight packets is limited in these layers. We used sock_wmalloc() with
the %force parameter set to 1 to ignore socket limits anyway.

This patch removes two atomic operations per SYNACK packet.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent f8f5701b
......@@ -2461,7 +2461,7 @@ struct sk_buff *tcp_make_synack(struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst,
if (cvp != NULL && cvp->s_data_constant && cvp->s_data_desired)
s_data_desired = cvp->s_data_desired;
skb = sock_wmalloc(sk, MAX_TCP_HEADER + 15 + s_data_desired, 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
skb = alloc_skb(MAX_TCP_HEADER + 15 + s_data_desired, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (skb == NULL)
return NULL;
......
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