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.