linux-kernel - Re: [Pv-drivers] 3.7-rc2 regression : file copied to CIFS-mounted directory corrupted

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Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:50:46 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@...are.com>
Cc:	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@...are.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	edumazet@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jongman heo <jongman.heo@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] 3.7-rc2 regression : file copied to CIFS-mounted
 directory corrupted

On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 03:02 -0700, Shreyas Bhatewara wrote:

Please dont top post on netdev or lkml

> Well, actually the driver does split large frags into frags of VMXNET3_MAX_TX_BUF_SIZE bytes each.
> 
> vmxnet3_drv.c
>  711         while (len) {
>  712                 u32 buf_size;
>  713
>  714                 if (len < VMXNET3_MAX_TX_BUF_SIZE) {
>  715                         buf_size = len;
>  716                         dw2 |= len;
>  717                 } else {
>  718                         buf_size = VMXNET3_MAX_TX_BUF_SIZE;
>  719                         /* spec says that for TxDesc.len, 0 == 2^14 */
>  720                 }
>  721
> ....
>  743
>  744                 len -= buf_size;
>  745                 buf_offset += buf_size;
>  746         }

Only the skb head is handled in the code you copy/pasted.

You need to generalize that to code in lines ~754


Then, the number of estimated descriptors is bad :

/* conservatively estimate # of descriptors to use */
count = VMXNET3_TXD_NEEDED(skb_headlen(skb)) +
	skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags + 1;


Yes, you need a more precise estimation and vmxnet3_map_pkt() should
eventually split too big frags.



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