On Sat, 2015-07-11 at 01:37 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote: > This reverts commit 3cc4949269e01f39443d0fcfffb5bc6b47878d45. > > There is nothing wrong with coalescing during defragmentation, it > reduces truesize overhead and simplifies things for the receiving > socket (no fraglist walk needed). > > However, it also destroys geometry of the original fragments. > While that doesn't cause any breakage (we make sure to not exceed largest > original size) ip_do_fragment contains a 'fastpath' that takes advantage > of a present frag list and results in fragments that (in most cases) > match what was received. > > In case its needed the coalescing could be done later, when we're sure > the skb is not forwarded. But discussion during NFWS resulted in > 'lets just remove this for now'. > > Cc: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> > Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de> > ---
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