netdev - Re: small RPS cache for fragments?

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Message-Id: <20110517.174431.1004332995189918916.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 17 May 2011 17:44:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: small RPS cache for fragments?

Guys we can't time out fragments if we are not the final
destination.

Due to assymetric routing, the fragment pieces we don't
see might reach the final destiantion not through us.

So we have to pass them onwards, we can't just drop them.
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