From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: stephan.gatzka@gmail.com
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/6] firewire net: IPv6 support (RFC3146).
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:42:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130112184234.313f8283@stein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F19A1B.7050200@gmail.com>
On Jan 12 Stephan Gatzka wrote:
>
> > Another thing: As far as I understand, the current code assumes that
> > peers will use the same unicast_FIFO for IPv4 unicast as for IPv6
> > unicast. This is not necessarily true. Either firewire-net needs to
> > maintain two lists of peers (one for IPv4, another for IPv6), or it needs
> > to maintain two unicast_FIFOs per peer.
> >
>
> Thanks for pointing that out. I would go for two unicast_Fifos per peer.
Indeed. Plus, if we look up an IPv6 peer whose IPv6 unicast_FIFO is as
yet unkown but whose IPv4 unicast_FIFO is already known, we could
optimistically use the latter until we learn the former. And vice versa.
--
Stefan Richter
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-12 14:21 [RFC PATCH 5/6] firewire net: IPv6 support (RFC3146) YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-12 15:22 ` Stefan Richter
2013-01-12 16:31 ` Stephan Gatzka
2013-01-12 17:00 ` Stefan Richter
2013-01-12 17:15 ` Stephan Gatzka
2013-01-12 17:42 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
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