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From: Michael Vittrup Larsen <michael.vittrup.larsen@ericsson.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: efficient port randomisation
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:58:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411011058.23141.michael.vittrup.larsen@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041029102828.123502e7@zqx3.pdx.osdl.net>

On Friday 29 October 2004 19:28, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Provide port randomization for incoming connections using variation of
> existing sequence number hash. Replace tcp_portalloc_lock and
> tcp_port_rover with atomic operation to allow better parallelism.
>
> This is based on
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-larsen-tsvwg-port-randomisation-0
>0.txt (with confirmation of of no IPR issues).

I have looked through this, and have a few comments:

* It is probably a good strategy to set 'tcp_rover_next' such that
  the next search is resumed from the previous port found to be free.
  (similar to the old algorithm).  I don't see this in your patch,
  but of course I could have missed it.

* connect_port_offset() does not (at least from an algorithm point
  of view) need to return an u32, an u16 is sufficient.


Michael Larsen

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-01  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20041027092531.78fe438c@guest-251-240.pdx.osdl.net>
     [not found] ` <200410291048.01955.michael.vittrup.larsen@ericsson.com>
2004-10-29 17:28   ` [PATCH] tcp: efficient port randomisation Stephen Hemminger
2004-11-01  9:58     ` Michael Vittrup Larsen [this message]
2004-11-01 17:20       ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-11-02  7:54         ` Michael Vittrup Larsen
2004-11-04 18:01           ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-11-05 10:03             ` Michael Vittrup Larsen
2004-11-17 23:30               ` [PATCH] tcp: efficient port randomisation (revised) Stephen Hemminger
2004-11-19  7:38                 ` Michael Vittrup Larsen
2004-12-01  5:46                 ` David S. Miller
     [not found]                   ` <20041201152446.3a0d5ce3@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>
     [not found]                     ` <20041201204622.7b760400.davem@davemloft.net>
2004-12-02 21:49                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-12-02 21:52                         ` David S. Miller
2004-12-02 22:51                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-12-02 23:01                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-12-04  5:42                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-12-06  8:18                             ` Michael Vittrup Larsen
2004-12-06 17:42                               ` [PATCH] tcp: efficient port randomisation (rev 3) Stephen Hemminger
2004-12-09  7:55                                 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-11  1:09                                   ` [PATCH] tcp: efficient port randomistion " Stephen Hemminger
2004-12-20 23:39                                     ` David S. Miller
2005-06-22  9:17                                       ` Michael Vittrup Larsen
2005-06-22 16:44                                         ` Stephen Hemminger

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