netdev - [PATCH] net-rps: Fix brokeness causing OOO packets

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Date:	Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:04:15 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net-rps: Fix brokeness causing OOO packets

From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>

In commit c445477d74ab3779 which adds aRFS to the kernel, the CPU
selected for RFS is not set correctly when CPU is changing.
This is causing OOO packets and probably other issues.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index bda6d00..c0946cb 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2818,8 +2818,10 @@ static int get_rps_cpu(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		if (unlikely(tcpu != next_cpu) &&
 		    (tcpu == RPS_NO_CPU || !cpu_online(tcpu) ||
 		     ((int)(per_cpu(softnet_data, tcpu).input_queue_head -
-		      rflow->last_qtail)) >= 0))
+		      rflow->last_qtail)) >= 0)) {
+			tcpu = next_cpu;
 			rflow = set_rps_cpu(dev, skb, rflow, next_cpu);
+		}
 
 		if (tcpu != RPS_NO_CPU && cpu_online(tcpu)) {
 			*rflowp = rflow;


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