netdev - Re: [PATCH] GRO: fix merging a paged skb after non-paged skbs

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Date:	Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:04:44 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GRO: fix merging a paged skb after non-paged skbs

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 19:49 +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 08:39:20PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > That is indeed the case; commit da3bc07171dff957906cbe2ad5abb443eccf57c4
> > made the following deletions:
> > 
> > -       /* Both our generic-LRO and SFC-SSR support skb and page based
> > -        * allocation, but neither support switching from one to the
> > -        * other on the fly. If we spot that the allocation mode has
> > -        * changed, then flush the LRO state.
> > -        */
> > -       if (unlikely(channel->rx_alloc_pop_pages != (rx_buf->page != NULL))) {
> > -               efx_flush_lro(channel);
> > -               channel->rx_alloc_pop_pages = (rx_buf->page != NULL);
> > -       }
> 
> Oops, sorry about that.
> 
> How about changing skb_gro_receive to detect such switches and
> simply return an error, which should have the same effect as
> flushing that flow?

That would work, though it looks like Michal has managed to make it
tolerate switches.  (I haven't yet tested the result myself.)

Ben.

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