netdev - Re: regression caused by 1d2024f61ec14bdb0c57a97a3fe73685abc2d198?

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Message-ID: <20130206180537.GA17228@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:05:37 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, stephen.s.ko@...el.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sony.chacko@...gic.com, mchan@...adcom.com,
	jitendra.kalsaria@...gic.com, eilong@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: regression caused by 1d2024f61ec14bdb0c57a97a3fe73685abc2d198?

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 09:42:45AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 19:42 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 08:15:32AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 17:50 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Also, I'm not sure I understand when should drivers set gso size
> > > > for incoming messages and what is a reasonable value.
> > > > Commit log talks about improved performance for lossy connections,
> > > > in this case, isn't this something net core should set?
> > > > 
> > > > I see 3 in-tree drivers that do this:
> > > > 
> > > > drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c:                skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size = bnx2x
> > > 
> > > bnx2x is fine, take a look at lines 464
> > 
> > Is this what you mean?
> > 
> >         /* This is needed in order to enable forwarding support */
> >         if (frag_size) {
> >                 skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size = bnx2x_set_lro_mss(bp,
> >                                         tpa_info->parsing_flags, len_on_bd);
> > 
> >                 /* set for GRO */
> >                 if (fp->mode == TPA_MODE_GRO)
> >                         skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type =
> >                             (GET_FLAG(tpa_info->parsing_flags,
> >                                       PARSING_FLAGS_OVER_ETHERNET_PROTOCOL) ==
> >                                                 PRS_FLAG_OVERETH_IPV6) ?
> >                                 SKB_GSO_TCPV6 : SKB_GSO_TCPV4;
> >         }
> > 
> > 
> > I see it sets gso_type but apparently only if mode is GRO?
> > Will this still break if mode is set to LRO?
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> In net-next tree, line 464 looks like :
> 
> static void bnx2x_set_gro_params(struct sk_buff *skb, u16 parsing_flags,
>                                  u16 len_on_bd, unsigned int pkt_len)
> {
>         /* TPA aggregation won't have either IP options or TCP options
>          * other than timestamp or IPv6 extension headers.
>          */
>         u16 hdrs_len = ETH_HLEN + sizeof(struct tcphdr);
> 
>         if (GET_FLAG(parsing_flags, PARSING_FLAGS_OVER_ETHERNET_PROTOCOL) ==
>             PRS_FLAG_OVERETH_IPV6) {
>                 hdrs_len += sizeof(struct ipv6hdr);
> <HERE>          skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type = SKB_GSO_TCPV6;
>         } else {
>                 hdrs_len += sizeof(struct iphdr);
> <HERE>          skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type = SKB_GSO_TCPV4;
>         }
> 
>         /* Check if there was a TCP timestamp, if there is it's will
>          * always be 12 bytes length: nop nop kind length echo val.
>          *
>          * Otherwise FW would close the aggregation.
>          */
>         if (parsing_flags & PARSING_FLAGS_TIME_STAMP_EXIST_FLAG)
>                 hdrs_len += TPA_TSTAMP_OPT_LEN;
> 
>         skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size = len_on_bd - hdrs_len;
> ...

OK this means cbf1de72324a8105ddcc3d9ce9acbc613faea17e might be needed
in 3.8 and maybe -stable, otherwise macvtap crashes when LRO is set.

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MST
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