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Message-ID: <a18a6bef-0262-4c72-86c9-8df72c8c7415@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:46:57 +0200
From: Richard Gobert <richardbgobert@...il.com>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/5] net: gro: only merge packets with
 incrementing or fixed outer ids

Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> Richard Gobert wrote:
>> Only merge encapsulated packets if their outer IDs are either
>> incrementing or fixed, just like for inner IDs and IDs of non-encapsulated
>> packets.
>>
>> Add another ip_fixedid bit for a total of two bits: one for outer IDs (and
>> for unencapsulated packets) and one for inner IDs.
>>
>> This commit preserves the current behavior of GSO where only the IDs of the
>> inner-most headers are restored correctly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert <richardbgobert@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  include/net/gro.h      | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
>>  net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c |  5 ++++-
>>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/net/gro.h b/include/net/gro.h
>> index 87c68007f949..322c5517f508 100644
>> --- a/include/net/gro.h
>> +++ b/include/net/gro.h
>> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ struct napi_gro_cb {
>>  		u8	is_fou:1;
>>  
>>  		/* Used to determine if ipid_offset can be ignored */
>> -		u8	ip_fixedid:1;
>> +		u8	ip_fixedid:2;
>>  
>>  		/* Number of gro_receive callbacks this packet already went through */
>>  		u8 recursion_counter:4;
>> @@ -442,29 +442,26 @@ static inline __wsum ip6_gro_compute_pseudo(const struct sk_buff *skb,
>>  }
>>  
>>  static inline int inet_gro_flush(const struct iphdr *iph, const struct iphdr *iph2,
>> -				 struct sk_buff *p, bool outer)
>> +				 struct sk_buff *p, bool inner)
>>  {
>>  	const u32 id = ntohl(*(__be32 *)&iph->id);
>>  	const u32 id2 = ntohl(*(__be32 *)&iph2->id);
>>  	const u16 ipid_offset = (id >> 16) - (id2 >> 16);
>>  	const u16 count = NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->count;
>>  	const u32 df = id & IP_DF;
>> -	int flush;
>>  
>>  	/* All fields must match except length and checksum. */
>> -	flush = (iph->ttl ^ iph2->ttl) | (iph->tos ^ iph2->tos) | (df ^ (id2 & IP_DF));
>> -
>> -	if (flush | (outer && df))
>> -		return flush;
>> +	if ((iph->ttl ^ iph2->ttl) | (iph->tos ^ iph2->tos) | (df ^ (id2 & IP_DF)))
>> +		return true;
>>  
>>  	/* When we receive our second frame we can make a decision on if we
>>  	 * continue this flow as an atomic flow with a fixed ID or if we use
>>  	 * an incrementing ID.
>>  	 */
>>  	if (count == 1 && df && !ipid_offset)
>> -		NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->ip_fixedid = true;
>> +		NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->ip_fixedid |= 1 << inner;
>>  
>> -	return ipid_offset ^ (count * !NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->ip_fixedid);
>> +	return ipid_offset ^ (count * !(NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->ip_fixedid & (1 << inner)));
>>  }
>>  
>>  static inline int ipv6_gro_flush(const struct ipv6hdr *iph, const struct ipv6hdr *iph2)
>> @@ -479,7 +476,7 @@ static inline int ipv6_gro_flush(const struct ipv6hdr *iph, const struct ipv6hdr
>>  
>>  static inline int __gro_receive_network_flush(const void *th, const void *th2,
>>  					      struct sk_buff *p, const u16 diff,
>> -					      bool outer)
>> +					      bool inner)
>>  {
>>  	const void *nh = th - diff;
>>  	const void *nh2 = th2 - diff;
>> @@ -487,19 +484,22 @@ static inline int __gro_receive_network_flush(const void *th, const void *th2,
>>  	if (((struct iphdr *)nh)->version == 6)
>>  		return ipv6_gro_flush(nh, nh2);
>>  	else
>> -		return inet_gro_flush(nh, nh2, p, outer);
>> +		return inet_gro_flush(nh, nh2, p, inner);
>>  }
>>  
>>  static inline int gro_receive_network_flush(const void *th, const void *th2,
>>  					    struct sk_buff *p)
>>  {
>> -	const bool encap_mark = NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->encap_mark;
>>  	int off = skb_transport_offset(p);
>>  	int flush;
>> +	int diff;
>>  
>> -	flush = __gro_receive_network_flush(th, th2, p, off - NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->network_offset, encap_mark);
>> -	if (encap_mark)
>> -		flush |= __gro_receive_network_flush(th, th2, p, off - NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->inner_network_offset, false);
>> +	diff = off - NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->network_offset;
>> +	flush = __gro_receive_network_flush(th, th2, p, diff, false);
>> +	if (NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->encap_mark) {
>> +		diff = off - NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->inner_network_offset;
>> +		flush |= __gro_receive_network_flush(th, th2, p, diff, true);
>> +	}
> 
> nit: this diff introduction is not needed. The patch is easier to
> parse without the change. Even if line length will (still) be longer.
> 
>>  
>>  	return flush;
>>  }
>> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
>> index e6612bd84d09..1949eede9ec9 100644
>> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
>> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_offload.c
>> @@ -471,6 +471,7 @@ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int tcp4_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *skb, int thoff)
>>  	const u16 offset = NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->network_offsets[skb->encapsulation];
>>  	const struct iphdr *iph = (struct iphdr *)(skb->data + offset);
>>  	struct tcphdr *th = tcp_hdr(skb);
>> +	bool is_fixedid;
>>  
>>  	if (unlikely(NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->is_flist)) {
>>  		skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type |= SKB_GSO_FRAGLIST | SKB_GSO_TCPV4;
>> @@ -484,8 +485,10 @@ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_SCOPE int tcp4_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *skb, int thoff)
>>  	th->check = ~tcp_v4_check(skb->len - thoff, iph->saddr,
>>  				  iph->daddr, 0);
>>  
>> +	is_fixedid = (NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->ip_fixedid >> skb->encapsulation) & 1;
>> +
>>  	skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type |= SKB_GSO_TCPV4 |
>> -			(NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->ip_fixedid * SKB_GSO_TCP_FIXEDID);
>> +			(is_fixedid * SKB_GSO_TCP_FIXEDID);
> 
> Similar to how gro_receive_network_flush is called from both transport
> layers, TCP and UDP, this is needed in udp_gro_complete_segment too?
> 
> Existing equivalent block is entirely missing there.
> 
> The deeper issue is that this is named TCP_FIXEDID, but in reality it
> is IPV4_FIXEDID and applies to all transport layer protocols on top.
> 
> Perhaps not to fix in this series. But a limitation of USO in the
> meantime.
> 

Yes, I noticed this when working on this change and there is no good
reason not to do this for UDP as well. I think we should address this in
a separate patch series.

>>  
>>  	tcp_gro_complete(skb);
>>  	return 0;
>> -- 
>> 2.36.1
>>
> 
> 


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