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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives?
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:25:54AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> Why in the world do we need indirection function call pointers
> in TCP to handle that?

To handle the case of not having a separate TIME-WAIT table
(sorry for being unclear). Or alternatively several conditionals. 

-Andi

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