From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Simeon Penev <spenev@istac.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch for MTU in the routing table cache
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:27:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1330698436.2469.27.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F50CFE1.5040605@istac.de>
Le vendredi 02 mars 2012 à 14:49 +0100, Simeon Penev a écrit :
> Hi Eric,
>
> no, i didn't. I'm new to the developer list and just wanted to post a
> patch proposition. I hoped that the maintainer of the code (probably
> Alan Cox) will decide whether to use it.
>
David Miller is the current network maintainer, but thats not the
point :)
I didnt test your patch, all I wanted to say is that you cant assume all
routes share the same MTU (device MTU)
And this is the assumption you coded :
if (mtu && rt_is_output_route(rt) && mtu == dst->dev->mtu)
return mtu;
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-02 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-02 13:13 Patch for MTU in the routing table cache Simeon Penev
2012-03-02 13:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-02 13:49 ` Simeon Penev
2012-03-02 14:27 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
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