From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/9] tcp: Consistent usage of ports in tcp_seq_init()
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 10:46:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230822104632.09dee717@elisabeth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230822053000.1118063-5-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:29:55 +1000
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> In tcp_seq_init() the meaning of "src" and "dst" isn't really clear since
> it's used for connections in both directions. However, these values are
> just feeding a hash, so as long as we're consistent and include all the
> information we want, it doesn't really matter.
>
> Oddly, for the "src" side we supply the (tap side) forwarding address but
> the (tap side) endpoint port. This again doesn't really matter, but it's
> confusing.
Oops, yes, dropping the only comment I had to 3/9...
--
Stefano
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-22 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-22 5:29 [PATCH v4 0/9] Flow Table Preliminaries David Gibson
2023-08-22 5:29 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] tap: Don't clobber source address in tap6_handler() David Gibson
2023-08-22 8:46 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-08-22 5:29 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] tap: Pass source address to protocol handler functions David Gibson
2023-08-22 5:29 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] tcp: More precise terms for addresses and ports David Gibson
2023-08-22 5:29 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] tcp: Consistent usage of ports in tcp_seq_init() David Gibson
2023-08-22 8:46 ` Stefano Brivio [this message]
2023-08-22 5:29 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] tcp, udp: Don't include destination address in partially precomputed csums David Gibson
2023-08-22 8:46 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-08-22 5:29 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] tcp, udp: Don't pre-fill IPv4 destination address in headers David Gibson
2023-08-22 5:29 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] tcp: Move in_epoll flag out of common connection structure David Gibson
2023-08-22 5:29 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] inany: Add missing double include guard to inany.h David Gibson
2023-08-22 5:30 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] tcp: Remove broken pressure calculations for tcp_defer_handler() David Gibson
2023-08-22 12:05 ` [PATCH v4 0/9] Flow Table Preliminaries Stefano Brivio
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