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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-02-09 20:42:07 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-02-14 21:33:07 -0800
commit2c8cec5c10bced2408082a6656170e74ac17231c (patch)
tree56f7d290b0c9f305267eeac915ad28f90c10aba2 /firmware/WHENCE
parentd606ef3fe0c57504b8e534c58498f73a6abc049a (diff)
ipv4: Cache learned PMTU information in inetpeer.
The general idea is that if we learn new PMTU information, we bump the peer genid. This triggers the dst_ops->check() code to validate and if necessary propagate the new PMTU value into the metrics. Learned PMTU information self-expires. This means that it is not necessary to kill a cached route entry just because the PMTU information is too old. As a consequence: 1) When the path appears unreachable (dst_ops->link_failure or dst_ops->negative_advice) we unwind the PMTU state if it is out of date, instead of killing the cached route. A redirected route will still be invalidated in these situations. 2) rt_check_expire(), rt_worker_func(), et al. are no longer necessary at all. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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