netdev - Re: vxlan gso is broken by stackable gso

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Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:41:47 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vxlan gso is broken by stackable gso_segment()

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:18 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 02:09:00 -0700
>
>> @@ -1252,6 +1252,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *inet_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb,
>>       const struct net_offload *ops;
>>       unsigned int offset = 0;
>>       struct iphdr *iph;
>> +     bool udpfrag;
>>       bool tunnel;
>>       int proto;
>>       int nhoff;
>> @@ -1306,10 +1307,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *inet_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb,
>>       if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(segs))
>>               goto out;
>>
>> +     udpfrag = !!skb->encapsulation && proto == IPPROTO_UDP;
>>       skb = segs;
>>       do {
>>               iph = (struct iphdr *)(skb_mac_header(skb) + nhoff);
>> -             if (!tunnel && proto == IPPROTO_UDP) {
>> +             if (udpfrag) {
>>                       iph->id = htons(id);
>>                       iph->frag_off = htons(offset >> 3);
>>                       if (skb->next != NULL)
>>
>
> The "tunnel" variable becomes unused once you do this, please remove it.

'bool tunnel' actually still used to indicate encap_level > 0

Eric's fix brings back performance for vxlan and gre keeps working. Thx!

net/core/skbuff.c:3474 skb_try_coalesce() warning, I mentioned before,
is unrelated.
I still see it with this patch. Running either gre or vxlan tunnels.
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