netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: add per device sg_max

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jan 2016 11:01:49 +0100
From:	Hans Westgaard Ry <hans.westgaard.ry@...cle.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add per device sg_max_frags for skb



On 01/06/2016 03:05 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 14:16 +0100, Hans Westgaard Ry wrote:
>> Devices may have limits on the number of fragments in an skb they
>> support. Current codebase uses a constant as maximum for number of
>> fragments (MAX_SKB_FRAGS) one skb can hold and use.
>>
>> When enabling scatter/gather and running traffic with many small
>> messages the codebase uses the maximum number of fragments and thereby
>> violates the max for certain devices.
>>
>> An example of such a violation is when running IPoIB on a HCA
>> supporting 16 SGE on an architecture with 4K pagesize. The
>> MAX_SKB_FRAGS will be 17 (64K/4K+1) and because IPoIB adds yet another
>> segment we end up with send_requests with 18 SGE resulting in
>> kernel-panic.
>>
>> The patch allows the device to limit the maximum number fragments used
>> in one skb.
>>
>> The functionality corresponds to gso_max_size/gso_max_segs for gso.
> Unfortunately this is not the right place to fix this issue.
>
> Think about forwarding workloads, where the SKB is cooked by GRO engine.
>
> Anyway, local TCP stack uses 32KB page fragments, so typical skb has no
> more than 3 frags.
>
> Look at ndo_features_check(), where the problematic device driver can
> add its logic.
>
>
>
I've had a look at ndo_features_check and understand that I could supply 
my own
version of the routine, but I wasn't able to figure out how that would 
solve my problem.
As far as I can see the routine is not called in the part of code 
handling scatter/gather.
Could you help out with more info?


Hans