Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

2015-08-28 Thread David Miller
From: Martin KaFai Lau Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:36:38 -0700 > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:43:20AM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: >> That's why I vote to check out if it's possible/reasonable to backport this >> series to the stable kernels. > I have backported to 4.0.y without major issue, so pos

Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

2015-08-28 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 28.08.2015 um 11:27 schrieb Alexander Holler: Am 28.08.2015 um 09:36 schrieb Martin KaFai Lau: On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:43:20AM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: That's why I vote to check out if it's possible/reasonable to backport this series to the stable kernels. I have backported to 4.0

Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

2015-08-28 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 28.08.2015 um 09:36 schrieb Martin KaFai Lau: On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:43:20AM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: That's why I vote to check out if it's possible/reasonable to backport this series to the stable kernels. I have backported to 4.0.y without major issue, so possible. Sure, as th

Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

2015-08-28 Thread Martin KaFai Lau
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:43:20AM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > That's why I vote to check out if it's possible/reasonable to backport this > series to the stable kernels. I have backported to 4.0.y without major issue, so possible. I did try on 3.1x and gave up. It is a lot of changes, so I

Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

2015-08-17 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 15.08.2015 um 09:48 schrieb Alexander Holler: Am 30.07.2015 um 13:57 schrieb Alexander Holler: Am 29.07.2015 um 11:25 schrieb Alexander Holler: Am 23.05.2015 um 05:55 schrieb Martin KaFai Lau: To complete the discussion, that "annoying behaviour" is also a big information leak. Because r

Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

2015-08-15 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 30.07.2015 um 13:57 schrieb Alexander Holler: Am 29.07.2015 um 11:25 schrieb Alexander Holler: Am 23.05.2015 um 05:55 schrieb Martin KaFai Lau: This series is to avoid creating a RTF_CACHE route whenever we are consulting the fib6 tree with a new destination. Instead, only create RTF_CACHE

Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

2015-07-30 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 29.07.2015 um 11:25 schrieb Alexander Holler: Am 23.05.2015 um 05:55 schrieb Martin KaFai Lau: This series is to avoid creating a RTF_CACHE route whenever we are consulting the fib6 tree with a new destination. Instead, only create RTF_CACHE route when we see a pmtu exception. That even h

Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

2015-07-29 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 23.05.2015 um 05:55 schrieb Martin KaFai Lau: This series is to avoid creating a RTF_CACHE route whenever we are consulting the fib6 tree with a new destination. Instead, only create RTF_CACHE route when we see a pmtu exception. That even helps on systems without an IPv6-connection to worl

Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

2015-05-26 Thread Martin KaFai Lau
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > I also went over the changes to the last version and such, albeit a bit > late: > Reviewed-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Thanks for your help and review, Hannes! --Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

2015-05-26 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On Mon, May 25, 2015, at 19:34, David Miller wrote: > From: Martin KaFai Lau > Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 20:55:55 -0700 > > > This series is to avoid creating a RTF_CACHE route whenever we are > > consulting > > the fib6 tree with a new destination. Instead, only create RTF_CACHE route > > when we

Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

2015-05-25 Thread David Miller
From: Martin KaFai Lau Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 20:55:55 -0700 > This series is to avoid creating a RTF_CACHE route whenever we are consulting > the fib6 tree with a new destination. Instead, only create RTF_CACHE route > when we see a pmtu exception. Looks great, nice work. Series applied to ne

[PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ipv6: Only create RTF_CACHE route after encountering pmtu exception

2015-05-22 Thread Martin KaFai Lau
v4 -> v5: - Patch 1 is new. Clean up the ipv6_select_ident() and ip6_fragment(). - Further simplify the newly added rt6_get_pcpu_route(). If there is a 'prev' after cmpxchg, return prev instead of the newly created percpu clone. v3 -> v4: - Patch 8 is new. It keeps track of the DST_NOCACHE r