From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: tore@fud.no, maze@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
therbert@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: RTAX_FEATURE_ALLFRAG causes inefficient TCP segment sizing
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:39:26 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120425.143926.1031867921141711841.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1335348157.3274.30.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:02:37 +0200
> On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 11:38 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> In this case, do we still need to send the frag header ?
>>
>> I ask this because some TSO6 implementations probably dont cope very
>> well with this added header (untested path)
>>
>
> So a patch against net-next would looks like :
>
> (Incredible, we remove some code in linux ;) )
I wouldn't mind applying this :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-25 18:40 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
2012-04-25 9:52 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-04-25 10:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-25 18:39 ` David Miller [this message]
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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