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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/16] Handle redirects just like PMTU
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:45:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1342082733.3265.8254.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120712.011030.1683311016960504439.davem@davemloft.net>

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 01:10 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> As described in my patch series from the other day, we need to
> rearrange redirect handling so that the local initiators of packets
> (sockets, tunnels, xfrms, etc.) that implement the protocols compute
> the route and pass this down into the ipv4/ipv6 routing code.
> 
> These changes here do so by implementing a new dst_ops->redirect
> method.
> 
> No more do we have this funny code that tries several different sets
> of routing keys to try and figure out which route the redirect should
> actually be applied to.
> 
> No more do we have the problem wherein TOS rewriting causes problems
> for us.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Wow, this looks very good.

I did a quick review and found no obvious problem.

Bye bye ip_rt_redirect(), finally ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-12  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-12  8:10 [PATCH 0/16] Handle redirects just like PMTU David Miller
2012-07-12  8:45 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-07-12 10:58   ` David Miller

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