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Author SHA1 Message Date
Pavel Emelyanov
429f08e950 [IPV4]: Consolidate the ip cork destruction in ip_output.c
The ip_push_pending_frames and ip_flush_pending_frames do the
same things to flush the sock's cork. Move this into a separate
function and save ~80 bytes from the .text

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:08:25 -08:00
Chuck Lever
c2636b4d9e [NET]: Treat the sign of the result of skb_headroom() consistently
In some places, the result of skb_headroom() is compared to an unsigned
integer, and in others, the result is compared to a signed integer.  Make
the comparisons consistent and correct.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-23 21:27:55 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
861d048607 [IPV4]: Uninline netfilter okfns
Now that we don't pass double skb pointers to nf_hook_slow anymore, gcc
can generate tail calls for some of the netfilter hook okfn invocations,
so there is no need to inline the functions anymore. This caused huge
code bloat since we ended up with one inlined version and one out-of-line
version since we pass the address to nf_hook_slow.

Before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
8997385 1016524  524652 10538561         a0ce41 vmlinux

After:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
8994009 1016524  524652 10535185         a0c111 vmlinux
-------------------------------------------------------
  -3376

All cases have been verified to generate tail-calls with and without
netfilter. The okfns in ipmr and xfrm4_input still remain inline because
gcc can't generate tail-calls for them.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:35 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
3b04ddde02 [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
David L Stevens
96793b4825 [IPV4]: Add ICMPMsgStats MIB (RFC 4293)
Background: RFC 4293 deprecates existing individual, named ICMP
type counters to be replaced with the ICMPMsgStatsTable. This table
includes entries for both IPv4 and IPv6, and requires counting of all
ICMP types, whether or not the machine implements the type.

These patches "remove" (but not really) the existing counters, and
replace them with the ICMPMsgStats tables for v4 and v6.
It includes the named counters in the /proc places they were, but gets the
values for them from the new tables. It also counts packets generated
from raw socket output (e.g., OutEchoes, MLD queries, RA's from
radvd, etc).

Changes:
1) create icmpmsg_statistics mib
2) create icmpv6msg_statistics mib
3) modify existing counters to use these
4) modify /proc/net/snmp to add "IcmpMsg" with all ICMP types
        listed by number for easy SNMP parsing
5) modify /proc/net/snmp printing for "Icmp" to get the named data
        from new counters.

Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:28 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
f49f9967b2 [IPV4]: Clean up duplicate includes in net/ipv4/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	net/ipv4/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:02 -07:00
Jozsef Kadlecsik
ba9dda3ab5 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add TRACE target
The TRACE target can be used to follow IP and IPv6 packets through
the ruleset.

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick NcHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:14 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
d212f87b06 [NET]: IPV6 checksum offloading in network devices
The existing model for checksum offload does not correctly handle
devices that can offload IPV4 and IPV6 only. The NETIF_F_HW_CSUM flag
implies device can do any arbitrary protocol.

This patch:
 * adds NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM for those devices
 * fixes bnx2 and tg3 devices that need it
 * add NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM to ipv6 output (incl GSO)
 * fixes assumptions about NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM in nat
 * adjusts bridge union of checksumming computation

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:52 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
f0e48dbfc5 [TCP]: Honour sk_bound_dev_if in tcp_v4_send_ack
A time_wait socket inherits sk_bound_dev_if from the original socket,
but it is not used when sending ACK packets using ip_send_reply.

Fix by passing the oif to ip_send_reply in struct ip_reply_arg and
use it for output routing.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-07 13:38:51 -07:00
Mitsuru Chinen
80787ebc2b [IPV4] SNMP: Support OutMcastPkts and OutBcastPkts
A transmitted IP multicast datagram should be counted as OutMcastPkts.
By the same token, a transmitted IP broadcast datagram should be
counted as OutBcastPkts.

Signed-off-by: Mitsuru Chinen <mitch@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-30 00:58:32 -07:00
John Heffner
628a5c5618 [INET]: Add IP(V6)_PMTUDISC_RPOBE
Add IP(V6)_PMTUDISC_PROBE value for IP(V6)_MTU_DISCOVER.  This option forces
us not to fragment, but does not make use of the kernel path MTU discovery.
That is, it allows for user-mode MTU probing (or, packetization-layer path
MTU discovery).  This is particularly useful for diagnostic utilities, like
traceroute/tracepath.

Signed-off-by: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:10 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d626f62b11 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}
To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-04-25 22:28:23 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
b0e380b1d8 [SK_BUFF]: unions of just one member don't get anything done, kill them
Renaming skb->h to skb->transport_header, skb->nh to skb->network_header and
skb->mac to skb->mac_header, to match the names of the associated helpers
(skb[_[re]set]_{transport,network,mac}_header).

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:26:20 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
cfe1fc7759 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_network_header_len
For the common sequence "skb->h.raw - skb->nh.raw", similar to skb->mac_len,
that is precalculated tho, don't think we need to bloat skb with one more
member, so just use this new helper, reducing the number of non-skbuff.h
references to the layer headers even more.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:26:19 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
bff9b61ce3 [SK_BUFF]: Use the helpers to get the layer header pointer
Some more cases...

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:26:18 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
e7ac05f340 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: add nf_copy() to safely copy members in skb
This unifies the codes to copy netfilter related datas. Before copying,
nf_copy() puts original members in destination skb.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:55 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
9c70220b73 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_transport_header(skb)
For the places where we need a pointer to the transport header, it is
still legal to touch skb->h.raw directly if just adding to,
subtracting from or setting it to another layer header.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:31 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
aa8223c7bb [SK_BUFF]: Introduce tcp_hdr(), remove skb->h.th
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:26 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
967b05f64e [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_set_transport_header
For the cases where the transport header is being set to a offset from
skb->data.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:17 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
badff6d01a [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_transport_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->h.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->h.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple cases:

skb->h.raw = skb->data;
skb->h.raw = {skb_push|[__]skb_pull}()

The next ones will handle the slightly more "complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:15 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
eddc9ec53b [SK_BUFF]: Introduce ip_hdr(), remove skb->nh.iph
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:10 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
c14d2450cb [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_set_network_header
For the cases where the network header is being set to a offset from skb->data.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:01 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d56f90a7c9 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_network_header()
For the places where we need a pointer to the network header, it is still legal
to touch skb->nh.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it
to another layer header.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:59 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
bbe735e424 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_network_offset()
For the quite common 'skb->nh.raw - skb->data' sequence.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:58 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
8856dfa3e9 [SK_BUFF]: Use skb_reset_network_header after skb_push
Some more cases where skb->nh.iph was being set that were converted
to using skb_reset_network_header.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:53 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2ca9e6f2c2 [SK_BUFF]: Some more skb_put cases converted to skb_reset_network_header
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:51 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
e2d1bca7e6 [SK_BUFF]: Use skb_reset_network_header in skb_push cases
skb_push updates and returns skb->data, so we can just call
skb_reset_network_header after the call to skb_push.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:47 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
c1d2bbe1cd [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_network_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->nh.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->nh.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more
"complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:46 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
459a98ed88 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_mac_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more
"complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:32 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
132adf5463 [IPV4]: cleanup
Add whitespace around keywords.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:11 -07:00
Tim Schmielau
cd354f1ae7 [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
e905a9edab [NET] IPV4: Fix whitespace errors.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10 23:19:39 -08:00
David S. Miller
e89862f4c5 [TCP]: Restore SKB socket owner setting in tcp_transmit_skb().
Revert 931731123a

We can't elide the skb_set_owner_w() here because things like certain
netfilter targets (such as owner MATCH) need a socket to be set on the
SKB for correct operation.

Thanks to Jan Engelhardt and other netfilter list members for
pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-26 01:04:55 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
3644f0cee7 [NET]: Convert hh_lock to seqlock.
The hard header cache is in the main output path, so using
seqlock instead of reader/writer lock should reduce overhead.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08 17:19:20 -08:00
Al Viro
a1f8e7f7fb [PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> highmem.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-04 02:00:29 -05:00
Al Viro
5084205faf [NET]: Annotate callers of csum_partial_copy_...() and csum_and_copy...() in net/*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:23:33 -08:00
Al Viro
44bb93633f [NET]: Annotate csum_partial() callers in net/*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:23:32 -08:00
Al Viro
d3bc23e7ee [NET]: Annotate callers of csum_fold() in net/*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:23:27 -08:00
Al Viro
714e85be35 [IPV6]: Assorted trivial endianness annotations.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:22:50 -08:00
David S. Miller
931731123a [TCP]: Don't set SKB owner in tcp_transmit_skb().
The data itself is already charged to the SKB, doing
the skb_set_owner_w() just generates a lot of noise and
extra atomics we don't really need.

Lmbench improvements on lat_tcp are minimal:

before:
TCP latency using localhost: 23.2701 microseconds
TCP latency using localhost: 23.1994 microseconds
TCP latency using localhost: 23.2257 microseconds

after:
TCP latency using localhost: 22.8380 microseconds
TCP latency using localhost: 22.9465 microseconds
TCP latency using localhost: 22.8462 microseconds

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:21:52 -08:00
Thomas Graf
82e91ffef6 [NET]: Turn nfmark into generic mark
nfmark is being used in various subsystems and has become
the defacto mark field for all kinds of packets. Therefore
it makes sense to rename it to `mark' and remove the
dependency on CONFIG_NETFILTER.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:21:38 -08:00
Al Viro
3ca3c68e76 [IPV4]: struct ip_options annotations
->faddr is net-endian; annotated as such, variables inferred to be net-endian
annotated.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-28 18:01:53 -07:00
Al Viro
13d8eaa06a [IPV4]: ip_build_and_send_pkt() annotations
saddr and daddr are net-endian

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-28 18:01:19 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
9bcfcaf5e9 [NETFILTER] bridge: simplify nf_bridge_pad
Do some simple optimization on the nf_bridge_pad() function
and don't use magic constants. Eliminate a double call and
the #ifdef'd code for CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:18:31 -07:00
Brian Haley
ab32ea5d8a [NET/IPV4/IPV6]: Change some sysctl variables to __read_mostly
Change net/core, ipv4 and ipv6 sysctl variables to __read_mostly.

Couldn't actually measure any performance increase while testing (.3%
I consider noise), but seems like the right thing to do.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:55:03 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
84fa7933a3 [NET]: Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL/CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL (for outgoing packets, whose
checksum still needs to be completed) and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE (for
incoming packets, device supplied full checksum).

Patch originally from Herbert Xu, updated by myself for 2.6.18-rc3.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:53 -07:00
Venkat Yekkirala
beb8d13bed [MLSXFRM]: Add flow labeling
This labels the flows that could utilize IPSec xfrms at the points the
flows are defined so that IPSec policy and SAs at the right label can
be used.

The following protos are currently not handled, but they should
continue to be able to use single-labeled IPSec like they currently
do.

ipmr
ip_gre
ipip
igmp
sit
sctp
ip6_tunnel (IPv6 over IPv6 tunnel device)
decnet

Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:27 -07:00
Wei Dong
0668b47205 [IPV4]: Fix SNMPv2 "ipFragFails" counter error
When I tested Linux kernel 2.6.17.7 about statistics
"ipFragFails",found that this counter couldn't increase correctly. The
criteria is RFC2011:
RFC2011
  ipFragFails OBJECT-TYPE
    SYNTAX      Counter32
    MAX-ACCESS  read-only
    STATUS      current
    DESCRIPTION
            "The number of IP datagrams that have been discarded because
            they needed to be fragmented at this entity but could not
            be, e.g., because their Don't Fragment flag was set."
    ::= { ip 18 }

When I send big IP packet to a router with DF bit set to 1 which need to
be fragmented, and router just sends an ICMP error message
ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED but no increments for this counter(in the function
ip_fragment).

Signed-off-by: Wei Dong <weid@nanjing-fnst.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-31 15:24:48 -07:00
Herbert Xu
e9fa4f7bd2 [INET]: Use pskb_trim_unique when trimming paged unique skbs
The IPv4/IPv6 datagram output path was using skb_trim to trim paged
packets because they know that the packet has not been cloned yet
(since the packet hasn't been given to anything else in the system).

This broke because skb_trim no longer allows paged packets to be
trimmed.  Paged packets must be given to one of the pskb_trim functions
instead.

This patch adds a new pskb_trim_unique function to cover the IPv4/IPv6
datagram output path scenario and replaces the corresponding skb_trim
calls with it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-13 20:12:58 -07:00
Wei Dong
dafee49085 [IPV6]: SNMPv2 "ipv6IfStatsOutFragCreates" counter error
When I tested linux kernel 2.6.71.7 about statistics
"ipv6IfStatsOutFragCreates", and found that it couldn't increase
correctly. The criteria is RFC 2465:

  ipv6IfStatsOutFragCreates OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX      Counter32
      MAX-ACCESS  read-only
      STATUS      current
      DESCRIPTION
         "The number of output datagram fragments that have
         been generated as a result of fragmentation at
         this output interface."
      ::= { ipv6IfStatsEntry 15 }

I think there are two issues in Linux kernel. 
1st:
RFC2465 specifies the counter is "The number of output datagram
fragments...". I think increasing this counter after output a fragment
successfully is better. And it should not be increased even though a
fragment is created but failed to output.

2nd:
If we send a big ICMP/ICMPv6 echo request to a host, and receive
ICMP/ICMPv6 echo reply consisted of some fragments. As we know that in
Linux kernel first fragmentation occurs in ICMP layer(maybe saying
transport layer is better), but this is not the "real"
fragmentation,just do some "pre-fragment" -- allocate space for date,
and form a frag_list, etc. The "real" fragmentation happens in IP layer
-- set offset and MF flag and so on. So I think in "fast path" for
ip_fragment/ip6_fragment, if we send a fragment which "pre-fragment" by
upper layer we should also increase "ipv6IfStatsOutFragCreates".

Signed-off-by: Wei Dong <weid@nanjing-fnst.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02 13:41:21 -07:00