netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] ipv4: Update pmtu informations on inetpeer only for output routes

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Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:33:20 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	steffen.klassert@...unet.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ipv4: Update pmtu informations on inetpeer only
 for output routes

From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:12:44 +0100

> So for the moment I'm thinking about adding an ip_dst_mtu()
> function that returns dst->ops->default_mtu() for input routes
> and dst_mtu() for output routes. Then we could convert the
> dst_mtu() users in net/ipv4/ over to this one.

We'll need something similar for ipv6 eventually...

I would suggest that we do away with dst_ops->default_mtu() and just
have dst_ops->mtu() which gets invoked unconditionally by dst_mtu().

You can integrate the ->default_mtu() handling and the input route
check into this new method.  Then IPv6 can be fixed in a
straightforward manner later.

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