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ipv4: Create probe timer for tcp PMTU as per RFC4821

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As per RFC4821 7.3.  Selecting Probe Size, a probe timer should
be armed once probing has converged. Once this timer expired,
probing again to take advantage of any path PMTU change. The
recommended probing interval is 10 minutes per RFC1981. Probing
interval could be sysctled by sysctl_tcp_probe_interval.

Eric Dumazet suggested to implement pseudo timer based on 32bits
jiffies tcp_time_stamp instead of using classic timer for such
rare event.

Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fan Du
2015-03-06 11:18:24 +08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 6b58e0a5f3
commit 05cbc0db03
7 changed files with 51 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ struct netns_ipv4 {
int sysctl_tcp_mtu_probing;
int sysctl_tcp_base_mss;
int sysctl_tcp_probe_threshold;
u32 sysctl_tcp_probe_interval;
struct ping_group_range ping_group_range;