netdev - [PATCH] ipv6: GRO should be ECN friendly

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Date:	Sat, 06 Oct 2012 08:32:26 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: GRO should be ECN friendly

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

IPv4 side of the problem was addressed in commit a9e050f4e7f9d
(net: tcp: GRO should be ECN friendly)

This patch does the same, but for IPv6 : A Traffic Class mismatch
doesnt mean flows are different, but instead should force a flush
of previous packets.

This patch removes artificial packet reordering problem.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
---
 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c |   11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
index e22e6d8..7739d28 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c
@@ -880,22 +880,25 @@ static struct sk_buff **ipv6_gro_receive(struct sk_buff **head,
 	nlen = skb_network_header_len(skb);
 
 	for (p = *head; p; p = p->next) {
-		struct ipv6hdr *iph2;
+		const struct ipv6hdr *iph2;
+		u32 first_word; /* <Version:4><Traffic_Class:8><Flow_Label:20> */
 
 		if (!NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->same_flow)
 			continue;
 
 		iph2 = ipv6_hdr(p);
+		first_word = *(u32 *)iph ^ *(u32 *)iph2 ;
 
-		/* All fields must match except length. */
+		/* All fields must match except length and Traffic Class. */
 		if (nlen != skb_network_header_len(p) ||
-		    memcmp(iph, iph2, offsetof(struct ipv6hdr, payload_len)) ||
+		    (first_word & htonl(0xF00FFFFF)) ||
 		    memcmp(&iph->nexthdr, &iph2->nexthdr,
 			   nlen - offsetof(struct ipv6hdr, nexthdr))) {
 			NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->same_flow = 0;
 			continue;
 		}
-
+		/* flush if Traffic Class fields are different */
+		NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->flush |= (first_word & htonl(0x0FF00000));
 		NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->flush |= flush;
 	}
 


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