It will be a bit more expensive to get the head of rtx queue once rtx queue is converted to an rb-tree.
We can avoid this extra cost in case tp->lost_skb_hint is set. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index 90afe41435966fc62ae8cb5799ca4c99995076dc..abc3b1db81f85a7feebda40cebc90c07afcef446 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -2207,12 +2207,12 @@ static void tcp_mark_head_lost(struct sock *sk, int packets, int mark_head) const u32 loss_high = tcp_is_sack(tp) ? tp->snd_nxt : tp->high_seq; WARN_ON(packets > tp->packets_out); - if (tp->lost_skb_hint) { - skb = tp->lost_skb_hint; - cnt = tp->lost_cnt_hint; + skb = tp->lost_skb_hint; + if (skb) { /* Head already handled? */ - if (mark_head && skb != tcp_write_queue_head(sk)) + if (mark_head && after(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq, tp->snd_una)) return; + cnt = tp->lost_cnt_hint; } else { skb = tcp_write_queue_head(sk); cnt = 0; -- 2.14.2.920.gcf0c67979c-goog