tcp: Remove TCPCT
TCPCT uses option-number 253, reserved for experimental use and should
not be used in production environments.
Further, TCPCT does not fully implement RFC 6013.
As a nice side-effect, removing TCPCT increases TCP's performance for
very short flows:
Doing an apache-benchmark with -c 100 -n 100000, sending HTTP-requests
for files of 1KB size.
before this patch:
average (among 7 runs) of 20845.5 Requests/Second
after:
average (among 7 runs) of 21403.6 Requests/Second
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/dccp/ipv6.c b/net/dccp/ipv6.c
index 6e05981..9c61f9c 100644
--- a/net/dccp/ipv6.c
+++ b/net/dccp/ipv6.c
@@ -213,8 +213,7 @@
}
-static int dccp_v6_send_response(struct sock *sk, struct request_sock *req,
- struct request_values *rv_unused)
+static int dccp_v6_send_response(struct sock *sk, struct request_sock *req)
{
struct inet6_request_sock *ireq6 = inet6_rsk(req);
struct ipv6_pinfo *np = inet6_sk(sk);
@@ -428,7 +427,7 @@
dreq->dreq_gss = dreq->dreq_iss;
dreq->dreq_service = service;
- if (dccp_v6_send_response(sk, req, NULL))
+ if (dccp_v6_send_response(sk, req))
goto drop_and_free;
inet6_csk_reqsk_queue_hash_add(sk, req, DCCP_TIMEOUT_INIT);