In this paper I will describe the work I am doing on the Linux networking infrastructure, with emphasis on cleaning the code, but with important "side effects" like reduction of core structures already saving over 600 bytes on UDP sockets all over the net in 2.5/2.6 (tcp, etc.), elimination of data dependencies, reduction of the non-mainstream network families maintenance cost by making them use code that now is in net/ipv4 but can be moved to net/core, leaving only the really ipv4-specific code and making LLC use it as a proof of concept (work done in my net-exp tree, pending submission).

TCP code becomes used by the poor cousins, they appreciate that!

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