netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] IP_GRE: Linearize skb before csum.

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:30:30 -0800
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] IP_GRE: Linearize skb before csum.

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 17:08 -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
>> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:03:19 -0800
>>
>> > An application changing data provided on a sendfile() or vmsplice() cant
>> > really expect data integrity being respected, even if checksum are done
>> > by the NIC (TSO)
>> >
>> > So if data integrity is not respected, just send a bogus TX checksum.
>>
>> I disagree.
>>
>> As a quality of implementation decision, we should always compute
>> correct checksums, ragardless of whether the page contents can be
>> modified asynchronously during the packet transmit.
>
> The retransmits will compute the correct checksums.
>
> For a very unlikely operation from the user, we want to disable GSO on
> GRE.
>
> If so, just revert my GSO patch.
>
> This is plain stupid to cook GSO packets and then linearize them, adding
> an extra copy and a point of failure, as allocating a 128K skb->head
> will probably fail very easily.
>
OK.
This overhead can be avoided with GRE segmentation offload. I will
send that series soon.

> Now, tcp_sendmsg() cooked skb are fine, and this patch assumes they are
> not.
>
> This patch is absolutely wrong.
>
>
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