From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: cl@linux-foundation.org
Cc: rdreier@cisco.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, yosefe@Voltaire.COM
Subject: Re: IPoIB: Fix multicast packet drops before join is complete
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:30:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090604.153057.178458221.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906041150590.3204@gentwo.org>
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:52:48 -0400 (EDT)
> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, David Miller wrote:
>
>> We don't do this for ARP, for example. We have a 3 packet limit just
>> like IPoIB implements for multicast here.
>
> ARP is a management protocol with specific semantics. Socket protocols are
> dealing with streams of datagrams.
Go look at what the ARP backlog queue actually does, then come back to
this conversation (hint: it's not a backlog for ARP packets, it's
a backlog for packets waiting for ARP to resolve).
Thank you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-04 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-02 14:49 IPoIB: Fix multicast packet drops before join is complete Christoph Lameter
2009-06-04 5:41 ` David Miller
2009-06-04 14:28 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-06-04 15:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-04 22:30 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-06-05 14:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-05 16:56 ` Roland Dreier
2009-06-05 19:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-05 21:12 ` Roland Dreier
2009-06-06 1:17 ` David Miller
2009-06-05 21:13 ` Roland Dreier
2009-06-08 15:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-06 1:16 ` David Miller
2009-06-08 15:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-08 21:29 ` David Miller
2009-06-09 20:52 ` Roland Dreier
2009-06-10 0:45 ` David Miller
2009-06-10 3:55 ` Roland Dreier
2009-06-10 4:57 ` David Miller
2009-06-10 5:04 ` Roland Dreier
2009-06-10 5:12 ` David Miller
2009-06-10 10:18 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-06-10 12:01 ` David Miller
2009-06-11 11:45 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-06-11 11:57 ` David Miller
2009-06-11 15:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-11 23:58 ` David Miller
2009-06-12 14:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-05 16:54 ` Roland Dreier
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