netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] gro: relax ID check in inet_gro

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Date:	Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:05:18 -0700
From:	Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@...adcom.com>,
	Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>,
	"H.K. Jerry Chu" <hkchu@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] gro: relax ID check in inet_gro_receive()

> I've never understood the usefulness of the 'IP ID increments by one'
check in the GRO TCP path anyway.

I think the above logic holds for non-TCP GRO in exactly the same way.
Furthermore, there's nothing like it in IPv6 (due to the outright lack
of an IPv6 ID field).

(And I have to learn to pay attention to those stupid 3 little
gray-on-white dots that hide the entire email I'm replying to)
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