netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: reset skb queue mapping when rx'ing over tunnel

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Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:18:30 -0700
From:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, chavey@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: reset skb queue mapping when rx'ing over tunnel

> Hmm...
>
> This would need to be reverted later when tunnels are updated to be
> multiqueue aware ? I made an attempt with GRE some days ago.
>
> I dont understand why this patch is needed, since get_rps_cpu() has a
> check anyway
>
I think the skb queue_mapping should correspond to a queue in the
skb's device as an invariant.  In the case that an skb's device is
change from a multiqueue device to single queue device (like GRE), the
inconsistency in the queue_mapping is fairly innocuous, we get one
warning but will pretty much take the unlikely branch for GRE packets
then on.  But imagine a case where skb's device was change from one
multiqueue device to another, but the queue mapping was not also
updated.  This  would cause poor weighting in get_rps_cpus.  For
example, if the new device had fewer queues than the old one,
get_rps_cpu will bias toward using queue 0's rps mask.

>        if (skb_rx_queue_recorded(skb)) {
>                u16 index = skb_get_rx_queue(skb);
>                if (unlikely(index >= dev->num_rx_queues)) {
>                        WARN_ONCE(dev->num_rx_queues > 1, "%s received packet "
>                                "on queue %u, but number of RX queues is %u\n",
>                                dev->name, index, dev->num_rx_queues);
>                        goto done;
>                }
>                rxqueue = dev->_rx + index;
>        } else
>                rxqueue = dev->_rx;
>
>
>
>
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