netdev - Re: question about UFO behavior for bridge device

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Date:	Fri, 13 May 2011 14:06:52 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: question about UFO behavior for bridge device

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 17:21 +0800, Shan Wei wrote:
> UDP protocol creates a big packet(skb) in which the data length is greater than MTU.
> 
> If device(eth0, lo) does not supports UFO, This big skb will be fragmented to
> many fragments in IP protocol, and fragments are sent one by one by device.
> 
> But, if device(eth0, lo) supports UFO, IP protocol don't fragment it, and
> device directly sends it out.
> 
> For bridge device which enable UFO, and Ethernet device(eth0) which not 
> support UFO, IP protocol also doesn't fragment it, and bridge forwards original
> skb to eth0. For this UFO disabled eth0, kernel needs to perform segmentation
> on so big skb in dev_gso_segment(), and link segmented skbs to next field
> of original skb. Then device sends segmented skbs out, but not original skb.

Right, it does that just before calling the driver's ndo_start_xmit().

> But, actually, i saw original big skb in eth0's tcpdump file, but not segmented skbs.
> The behavior is right or what we want?
> Is there anything missed about my analysis?

I assume that packet capturing is handled earlier in the transmit path.

Ben.

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