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