netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: gso: do not generate out of order packets

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Date:	Thu, 16 May 2013 14:44:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, maze@...gle.com, therbert@...gle.com,
	ncardwell@...gle.com, ycheng@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: gso: do not generate out of order packets

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 18:38:01 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> GSO TCP handler has following issues :
> 
> 1) ooo_okay from original GSO packet is duplicated to all segments
> 2) segments (but the last one) are orphaned, so transmit path can not
> get transmit queue number from the socket. This happens if GSO
> segmentation is done before stacked device for example.
> 
> Result is we can send packets from a given TCP flow to different TX
> queues (if using multiqueue NICS). This generates OOO problems and
> spurious SACK & retransmits.
> 
> Fix this by keeping socket pointer set for all segments.
> 
> This means that every segment must also have a destructor, and the
> original gso skb truesize must be split on all segments, to keep
> precise sk->sk_wmem_alloc accounting.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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