This struct will hold all the context used during the outq flush, so we don't have to pass lots of pointers all around.
Checked on x86_64, the compiler inlines all these functions and there is no derreference added because of the struct. This patchset depends on 'sctp: refactor sctp_outq_flush' Changes since v1: - updated to build on top of v2 of 'sctp: refactor sctp_outq_flush' Marcelo Ricardo Leitner (3): sctp: add sctp_flush_ctx, a context struct on outq_flush routines sctp: add asoc and packet to sctp_flush_ctx sctp: checkpatch fixups net/sctp/outqueue.c | 259 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- 1 file changed, 119 insertions(+), 140 deletions(-) -- 2.14.3
