netdev - Re: xen-netback: count number required slots for an skb more carefully

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Date:	Tue, 3 Sep 2013 23:04:55 -0700
From:	Matt Wilson <msw@...ux.com>
To:	annie li <annie.li@...cle.com>
Cc:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xen.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	msw@...zon.com
Subject: Re: xen-netback: count number required slots for an skb more
 carefully

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 10:25:59AM +0800, annie li wrote:
> On 2013-9-4 5:53, Wei Liu wrote:
[...]
> >Matt, do you fancy sending the final version? IIRC the commit message
> >needs to be re-written. I personally still prefer Matt's solution as
> >it a) make efficient use of the ring, b) uses ring pointers to
> >calculate slots which is most accurate, c) removes the dependence on
> >MAX_SKB_FRAGS in guest RX path.
> >
> >Anyway, we should get this fixed ASAP.
> 
> Totally agree. This issue is easy to be reproduced with large MTU.
> It is better to upstream the fix soon in case others hit it and
> waste time to fix it.

I'd like to go with Xi's proposed patch that I posed earlier. The main
thing that's kept me from sending a final version is lack of time to
retest against a newer kernel.

Could someone help out with that? I probably can't get to it until the
end of the week.

Sorry for the delay. :-(

--msw
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