rxrpc: Implement path-MTU probing using padded PING ACKs (RFC8899)
Implement path-MTU probing (along the lines of RFC8899) by padding some of the PING ACKs we send. PING ACKs get their own individual responses quite apart from the acking of data (though, as ACKs, they fulfil that role also). The probing concentrates on packet sizes that correspond how many subpackets can be stuffed inside a jumbo packet as jumbo DATA packets are just aggregations of individual DATA packets and can be split easily for retransmission purposes. If we want to perform probing, we advertise this by setting the maximum number of jumbo subpackets to 0 in the ack trailer when we send an ACK and see if the peer is also advertising the service. This is interpreted by non-supporting Rx stacks as an indication that jumbo packets aren't supported. The MTU sizes advertised in the ACK trailer AF_RXRPC transmits are pegged at a maximum of 1444 unless pmtud is supported by both sides. Signed-off-by:David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241204074710.990092-10-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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