netdev - Re: gso: Attempt to handle mega-GRO packets

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Date:	Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:45:47 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	hkchu@...gle.com, mwdalton@...gle.com
Subject: Re: gso: Attempt to handle mega-GRO packets

On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 09:30 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Here is a totally untested patch that tries to trivially process
> these new frags + frag_list skbs.  It should actually be trivial
> to make this generate TSO packets by just adding a gso_ok check
> and short-circuit.
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> index 3735fad..ec8e8bc 100644
> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> @@ -2816,7 +2816,24 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_buff *skb, netdev_features_t features)
>  			hsize = len;
>  
>  		if (!hsize && i >= nfrags) {
> -			BUG_ON(fskb->len != len);
> +			if (fskb->len != len) {
> +				SKB_FRAG_ASSERT(fskb);
> +
> +				nskb = skb_segment(fskb, features);
> +
> +				err = PTR_ERR(nskb);
> +				if (IS_ERR(nskb))
> +					goto err;
> +				err = -ENOMEM;
> +
> +				if (segs)
> +					tail->next = nskb;
> +				else
> +					segs = nskb;
> +				tail = nskb;
> +				while (tail->next)
> +					tail = tail->next;
> +			}
>  
>  			pos += len;
>  			nskb = skb_clone(fskb, GFP_ATOMIC);
> 
> Thanks,

Hmm, I do not think fskb has the headers in the general case.

It might work in the GRO case only.



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