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From: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Maciej Żenczykowski" <maze@google.com>,
	"David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Tom Herbert" <therbert@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG causes inefficient TCP segment sizing
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:51:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <171c22af5ae0b0f70e7b81baad260de6@greed.fud.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1335346710.3274.24.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

* Eric Dumazet

> Hmm, but what if we change linux to choice a) instead of b) ?
>
> That is, not cap mtu to minimum value 1280 (and not use anymore
> RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG) : dst_allfrag() would be always false.

Yep.

> In this case, do we still need to send the frag header ?

No - the (translated) IPv4 packet should then fit onto the small-MTU
IPv4 link without any fragmentation (by the IPv4 router) required. So
you end up with perfectly regular end-to-end Path MTU Discovery.

Tore

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-25  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-24 17:37 [PATCH net-next] ipv6: RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG causes inefficient TCP segment sizing Eric Dumazet
2012-04-24 19:49 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-04-24 20:10   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-24 21:50     ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-04-24 21:51       ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-04-25  5:32       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-25  7:34         ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-04-25  9:20           ` Tore Anderson
2012-04-25  9:38             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-25  9:51               ` Tore Anderson [this message]
2012-04-25  9:52               ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-04-25 10:02               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-25 18:39                 ` David Miller
2012-04-25  9:48             ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-04-25 10:04               ` Tore Anderson
2012-04-25 10:15                 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-25 10:30                 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-04-25 10:44                   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-26 10:32                     ` Tore Anderson
2012-04-25 10:45                   ` Tore Anderson
2012-04-25 11:02                     ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-04-25 11:49                       ` Tore Anderson
2012-04-25 11:55                         ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-04-27  4:03 ` David Miller

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