netdev - Re: Increased multicast packet drops in 3.4

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Date:	Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:31:57 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@...advisors.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Increased multicast packet drops in 3.4

On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 15:21 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> 
> Are you receiving fragmented UDP frames ?
> 
> I ask this because with latest kernels (linux-3.5), we should no longer
> build a list of skb, but a single skb with page fragments.
> 
> commit 3cc4949269e01f39443d0fcfffb5bc6b47878d45
> Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Date:   Sat May 19 03:02:20 2012 +0000
> 
>     ipv4: use skb coalescing in defragmentation
>     
>     ip_frag_reasm() can use skb_try_coalesce() to build optimized skb,
>     reducing memory used by them (truesize), and reducing number of cache
>     line misses and overhead for the consumer.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>     Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> 
> 

Unfortunately mlx4 pulls too many bytes from the frame to skb->head, so
it defeats coalescing completely.

Try following patch (if you also try linux-3.5)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
index 9d27e42..700e70e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ enum {
 #define ETH_LLC_SNAP_SIZE	8
 
 #define SMALL_PACKET_SIZE      (256 - NET_IP_ALIGN)
-#define HEADER_COPY_SIZE       (128 - NET_IP_ALIGN)
+#define HEADER_COPY_SIZE       ETH_HLEN
 #define MLX4_LOOPBACK_TEST_PAYLOAD (HEADER_COPY_SIZE - ETH_HLEN)
 
 #define MLX4_EN_MIN_MTU		46


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