From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ipv4: Update pmtu informations on inetpeer only for output routes
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:00:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111115100014.GD20943@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111114.143320.773675445837769668.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:33:20PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:12:44 +0100
>
> > So for the moment I'm thinking about adding an ip_dst_mtu()
> > function that returns dst->ops->default_mtu() for input routes
> > and dst_mtu() for output routes. Then we could convert the
> > dst_mtu() users in net/ipv4/ over to this one.
>
> We'll need something similar for ipv6 eventually...
Well, probaply. I did not test with ipv6 yet, so I focused to
fix the ipv4 part in the first place.
>
> I would suggest that we do away with dst_ops->default_mtu() and just
> have dst_ops->mtu() which gets invoked unconditionally by dst_mtu().
>
> You can integrate the ->default_mtu() handling and the input route
> check into this new method. Then IPv6 can be fixed in a
> straightforward manner later.
Ok, I'll look into this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-15 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-11 11:08 [PATCH net 0/4] ipv4: various pmtu discovery fixes Steffen Klassert
2011-10-11 11:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] ipv4: Fix pmtu propagating Steffen Klassert
2011-10-12 21:02 ` David Miller
2011-10-13 10:09 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-10-13 17:58 ` David Miller
2011-10-14 5:54 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-10-17 12:18 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-10-19 9:07 ` Gao feng
2011-10-19 19:32 ` David Miller
2011-11-08 19:19 ` David Miller
2011-11-08 19:33 ` David Miller
2011-11-09 12:08 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-11-21 7:56 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-12-01 18:40 ` David Miller
2011-10-11 11:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] ipv4: Update pmtu informations on inetpeer only for output routes Steffen Klassert
2011-10-12 21:08 ` David Miller
2011-10-14 6:34 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-11-08 19:36 ` David Miller
2011-11-09 12:11 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-11-14 10:12 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-11-14 19:33 ` David Miller
2011-11-15 10:00 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2011-11-22 13:20 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-10-11 11:11 ` [PATCH 3/4] ipv4: Fix inetpeer expiration handling Steffen Klassert
2011-10-20 6:24 ` Gao feng
2011-11-08 19:38 ` David Miller
2011-11-09 12:47 ` Steffen Klassert
2011-10-11 11:12 ` [PATCH 4/4] ipv4: Fix inetpeer expire time information Steffen Klassert
2011-10-11 19:54 ` [PATCH net 0/4] ipv4: various pmtu discovery fixes David Miller
2011-11-08 19:41 ` David Miller
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