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Re: [PATCH net-next 02/13] sk_buff: add skb extension infrastructure

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2018-12-13 10:58:52


On 12/13/2018 02:39 AM, Florian Westphal wrote:
Thats whats done in the MPTCP out-of-tree implementation, but I don't
think its needed.

It could just delete the extension before ->queue_xmit() AFAIU.
So, cloning would do an refcount_inc(), and deleting the extension would do an refcount_dec_and_test() ?

That is what I called an extra pair of atomic operations.
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