The list for outgoing traffic buffers from a socket is currently
allocated on the stack. This forces us to initialize the queue for
each sent message, something costing extra CPU cycles in the most
critical data path. Later in this series we will introduce a new
safe input buffer queue, something that would force us to initialize
even the spinlock of the outgoing queue. A closer analysis reveals
that the queue always is filled and emptied within the same lock_sock()
session. It is therefore safe to use a queue aggregated in the socket
itself for this purpose. Since there already exists a queue for this
in struct sock, sk_write_queue, we introduce use of that queue in
this commit.
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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