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authorXin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>2018-10-15 19:58:29 +0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-10-15 22:54:20 -0700
commitd805397c3822d57ca3884d4bea37b2291fc40992 (patch)
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sctp: use the pmtu from the icmp packet to update transport pathmtu
Other than asoc pmtu sync from all transports, sctp_assoc_sync_pmtu is also processing transport pmtu_pending by icmp packets. But it's meaningless to use sctp_dst_mtu(t->dst) as new pmtu for a transport. The right pmtu value should come from the icmp packet, and it would be saved into transport->mtu_info in this patch and used later when the pmtu sync happens in sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc or sctp_packet_config. Besides, without this patch, as pmtu can only be updated correctly when receiving a icmp packet and no place is holding sock lock, it will take long time if the sock is busy with sending packets. Note that it doesn't process transport->mtu_info in .release_cb(), as there is no enough information for pmtu update, like for which asoc or transport. It is not worth traversing all asocs to check pmtu_pending. So unlike tcp, sctp does this in tx path, for which mtu_info needs to be atomic_t. Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/sctp/structs.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
index 28a7c8e44636..a11f93790476 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
@@ -876,6 +876,8 @@ struct sctp_transport {
unsigned long sackdelay;
__u32 sackfreq;
+ atomic_t mtu_info;
+
/* When was the last time that we heard from this transport? We use
* this to pick new active and retran paths.
*/