[TCP]: speed up SACK processing
Use "hints" to speed up the SACK processing. Various forms
of this have been used by TCP developers (Web100, STCP, BIC)
to avoid the 2x linear search of outstanding segments.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index ff13c4c..982b4ec 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -1247,6 +1247,12 @@
(skb != (struct sk_buff *)&(sk)->sk_write_queue); \
skb = skb->next)
+/*from STCP for fast SACK Process*/
+#define sk_stream_for_retrans_queue_from(skb, sk) \
+ for (; (skb != (sk)->sk_send_head) && \
+ (skb != (struct sk_buff *)&(sk)->sk_write_queue); \
+ skb = skb->next)
+
/*
* Default write policy as shown to user space via poll/select/SIGIO
*/