From: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Paul MacKerras <paulus@samba.org>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, fcusack@samba.org, carlson@workingcode.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP
Date: 25 Jun 2003 18:06:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1056578813.27267.8.camel@brick.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030625.143334.85380461.davem@redhat.com>
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 17:33, David S. Miller wrote:
> Why don't you just queue the payload packets in a "resolution queue"
> until the socket is created? Just make the resolution queue packets
> timeout using a value that will easily exceed any reasonable PPP
> negotiation time.
>
> All this ordered packet arrival shit is just beyond stupid.
Exactly this mechanism is what I had in mind.
The open question remaining is if there are any protocols which can be
affected by packets being processed out of order. Some people have
suggested that there are. If not, then there's not much to discuss. Can
anyone comment on this decisively, either way?
--
Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-25 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-25 7:24 [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP Rusty Russell
2003-06-25 11:19 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-25 13:21 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-25 13:42 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-25 15:45 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-25 17:27 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-25 22:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-25 22:56 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-25 16:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-25 16:22 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-25 16:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-25 17:07 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-25 17:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-25 18:00 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-25 22:22 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-25 22:53 ` Ben Greear
2003-06-25 21:33 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-25 22:06 ` Michal Ostrowski [this message]
2003-06-26 1:04 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-26 3:57 ` Rusty Russell
2003-06-26 3:59 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-26 8:17 ` Rusty Russell
2003-06-26 8:55 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-26 10:47 ` James Carlson
2003-06-26 10:51 ` James Carlson
2003-06-26 23:18 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-27 11:39 ` James Carlson
2003-06-27 12:12 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-27 13:19 ` James Carlson
2003-06-27 14:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-27 15:27 ` James Carlson
2003-06-28 2:21 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-28 22:51 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-26 11:37 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-25 16:01 ` Jason Lunz
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