netdev - Re: [PATCH] nf_conntrack_reasm: add fast path for in-order fragments

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Date:	Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:53:20 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Mitchell Erblich <erblichs@...thlink.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nf_conntrack_reasm: add fast path for in-order fragments

Changli Gao wrote:
> nf_conntrack_reasm: add fast path for in-order fragments
>
> As the fragments are sent in order in most of OSes, such as Windows, Darwin and
> FreeBSD, it is likely the new fragments are at the end of the inet_frag_queue.
> In the fast path, we check if the skb at the end of the inet_frag_queue is the
> prev we expect.
>
>   

I'll apply this when merging with net-next the next time since this depends
on your "fragment: add fast path for in-order fragments" patch.
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