From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
chris2553@googlemail.com, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
gpiez@web.de, Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udp: increment UDP_MIB_NOPORTS in mcast receive
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:39:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506C7869.8030308@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF8CC7A8E7.DA3B059E-ON85257A8C.004C258C-85257A8C.004DCE49@us.ibm.com>
On 10/03/2012 07:09 AM, David Stevens wrote:
> Of course. I think our difference is on the definition of
> "receives". I don't think a packet delivered locally due to
> promiscuous mode, broadcast or an imperfect multicast address filter
> match is a host UDP datagram receive. These packets really shouldn't
> be delivered to UDP at all; they are not addressed to this host (at
> least the non-broadcast, no-membership ones). A unicast UDP packet
> that doesn't match a local IP address does not increment this
> counter. A promiscuous mode multicast delivery is no different,
> except that the destination alone doesn't tell us if it is for us.
>
> I think counting these will primarily lead to administrators seeing
> non-zero drops and wasting their time trying to track them down.
I would tend to agree with David on this one. Or they might cease trying
to track them down because they've gotten so many "false positives."
Isn't "meant for me" vs "not meant for me" at the heard of "drops"
versus "discards?"
Once the packet is in the host, is it tagged in some way with "this was
received as promiscuous/whatnot?"
rick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-03 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-17 15:44 Possible networking regression in 3.6.0 Chris Clayton
2012-09-18 14:21 ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-18 14:31 ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-18 14:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-18 15:51 ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-19 15:26 ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-22 6:26 ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-27 11:50 ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-27 12:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-27 18:05 ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-27 21:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-27 21:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-28 6:53 ` David Miller
2012-09-28 9:14 ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-28 9:22 ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-28 11:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-09-28 14:28 ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-30 15:26 ` Chris Clayton
2012-09-30 19:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-01 8:36 ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-01 9:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-01 15:13 ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-01 15:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-01 16:19 ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-01 16:37 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-01 18:28 ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-01 18:34 ` Captain Obvious
2012-10-01 19:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-01 19:55 ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-01 19:22 ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-01 19:34 ` Dave Jones
2012-10-01 20:01 ` David Miller
2012-10-01 20:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-02 15:27 ` Edivaldo de Araújo Pereira
2012-10-02 15:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-02 15:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-02 15:57 ` Dave Jones
2012-10-02 16:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-02 18:25 ` David Miller
2012-10-02 21:14 ` Alexander Duyck
2012-10-02 21:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-02 23:24 ` Julian Anastasov
2012-10-03 3:10 ` David Miller
2012-10-03 15:01 ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-03 20:57 ` Julian Anastasov
2012-10-03 7:28 ` [PATCH] udp: increment UDP_MIB_NOPORTS in mcast receive Eric Dumazet
2012-10-03 12:45 ` David Stevens
2012-10-03 13:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-03 14:09 ` David Stevens
2012-10-03 15:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-03 17:31 ` David Stevens
2012-10-03 19:30 ` David Miller
2012-10-03 17:39 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2012-10-03 2:55 ` Possible networking regression in 3.6.0 David Miller
2012-10-04 11:25 ` [PATCH] ipv4: add a fib_type to fib_info Eric Dumazet
2012-10-04 13:08 ` Chris Clayton
2012-10-04 13:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-04 18:14 ` David Miller
2012-09-18 14:44 ` Possible networking regression in 3.6.0 Chris Clayton
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