netdev - Re: UDP path MTU discovery

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Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:48:08 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	gdt@....id.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UDP path MTU discovery

David Miller wrote:
> From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:53:11 -0700
> 
> 
>>So, presuming it is indeed a bug what form might a fix take? Are you
>>suggesting there should be a way for an application to say "Please let
>>me see/know about the ICMP messages?"  Is that option available on
>>other platforms as a platform-specific extension?
> 
> 
> We already provide this information.
> 
> The socket ends up with EMSGSIZE in it's error queue, so the next time
> the application does I/O it sees that error immediately from the
> read/write call and thus knows that path MTU arrived.

A possibly pedantic question, but only when it does I/O, or also when/if it is 
in poll/select?

What distinguishes this EMSGSIZE from a run-of-the-mill EMSGSIZE error such as 
one gets from trying to send a datagram larger than SO_SNDBUF?

That is something that happens all the time in netperf when people forget a -m 
option on UDP_STREAM tests :)  Netperf gets the error and exits.  But supposing 
I wanted to make netperf more sophisticated in that regard - what sort of things 
must it do?  Call getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF) to check the size of the failed send 
against SO_SNDBUF and only then decide if it is an error on this send or an ICMP 
Datagram Too Big arrived indication from a previous send?  I know that netperf 
already has this information, so using it as the example is a bit stretched, but 
lets presume for the moment that netperf just has a socket handed to it from 
"somewhere."

rick jones
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