netdev - Re: IPV4: Enable IP_ID sequencing for all traffic (inquiring minds want to know why its set to zero)

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:01:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rick.jones2@...com
Cc:	cl@...ux-foundation.org, dlstevens@...ibm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPV4: Enable IP_ID sequencing for all traffic (inquiring minds
 want to know why its set to zero)

From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:39:37 -0700

> I have vague recollections of wanting to avoid (then) locks on the 
> increment in the non-fragmented paths, assertions that covering cases 
> like intermediate devices ignoring DF and fragmenting anyway didn't 
> warrant concern etc.

Partially, yes.

If you look, we do increment the ID for TCP connections which will
be setting IP_DF, but we allocate such IDs in a socket-local manner
which keeps these allocations from depleating the real ID cache
for that destination.

This is legal because when IP_DF is set, the IDs serve no purpose.

We had to do this because TCP header compression, used by SLIP et
al., depends upon the ID value incrementing.

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