netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] gro: more generic L2 header check

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Date:	Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:50:27 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	ogerlitz@...lanox.com, sean.hefty@...el.com,
	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	shlomop@...lanox.com, roland@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] gro: more generic L2 header check

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:51:50 +0100

> Shlomo Pongratz reported GRO L2 header check was suited for Ethernet
> only, and failed on IB/ipoib traffic.
> 
> He provided a patch faking a zeroed header to let GRO aggregates frames.
> 
> Roland Dreier, Herbert Xu, and others suggested we change GRO L2 header
> check to be more generic, ie not assuming L2 header is 14 bytes, but
> taking into account hard_header_len.
> 
> __napi_gro_receive() has special handling for the common case (Ethernet)
> to avoid a memcmp() call and use an inline optimized function instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Reported-by: Shlomo Pongratz <shlomop@...lanox.com>
> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>
> Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Tested-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>

Applied.
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