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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2012-03-15 10:24:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2012-03-15 10:24:32 +0000 |
| commit | 8229c885fe361e521ac64de36b16011e54a30de0 (patch) | |
| tree | 572e5d34b16713ddef9e803308c6f72014aff01b /net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | |
| parent | c3c50e8b651887bcefcc13beb3739c00b2379b5c (diff) | |
| parent | fde7d9049e55ab85a390be7f415d74c9f62dd0f9 (diff) | |
drm: Merge tag 'v3.3-rc7' into drm-core-next
Merge the fixes so far into core-next, needed to test
intel driver.
Conflicts:
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/ip_gre.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c index 6b3ca5ba4450..38673d2860e2 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ it is infeasible task. The most general solutions would be to keep skb->encapsulation counter (sort of local ttl), and silently drop packet when it expires. It is a good - solution, but it supposes maintaing new variable in ALL + solution, but it supposes maintaining new variable in ALL skb, even if no tunneling is used. Current solution: xmit_recursion breaks dead loops. This is a percpu @@ -91,14 +91,14 @@ One of them is to parse packet trying to detect inner encapsulation made by our node. It is difficult or even impossible, especially, - taking into account fragmentation. TO be short, tt is not solution at all. + taking into account fragmentation. TO be short, ttl is not solution at all. Current solution: The solution was UNEXPECTEDLY SIMPLE. We force DF flag on tunnels with preconfigured hop limit, that is ALL. :-) Well, it does not remove the problem completely, but exponential growth of network traffic is changed to linear (branches, that exceed pmtu are pruned) and tunnel mtu - fastly degrades to value <68, where looping stops. + rapidly degrades to value <68, where looping stops. Yes, it is not good if there exists a router in the loop, which does not force DF, even when encapsulating packets have DF set. But it is not our problem! Nobody could accuse us, we made @@ -457,8 +457,8 @@ static void ipgre_err(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 info) GRE tunnels with enabled checksum. Tell them "thank you". Well, I wonder, rfc1812 was written by Cisco employee, - what the hell these idiots break standrads established - by themself??? + what the hell these idiots break standards established + by themselves??? */ const struct iphdr *iph = (const struct iphdr *)skb->data; |