netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: sock: fix TCP_SKB_MIN

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Date:	Wed, 3 Jul 2013 08:31:52 -0700
From:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sock: fix TCP_SKB_MIN_TRUESIZE

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>
> commit eea86af6b1e18d ("net: sock: adapt SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF and
> SOCK_MIN_SNDBUF") forgot the sk_buff alignment taken into account
> in __alloc_skb() : skb->truesize = SKB_TRUESIZE(size);
>
> While above commit fixed the sender issue, the receiver is still
> dropping the second packet (on loopback device), because the receiver
> socket can not really hold two skbs :
> First packet truesize already is above sk_rcvbuf, so even TCP coalescing
> cannot help.
>
> On a typical 64bit build, each tcp skb truesize is 2304, instead of 2272
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
Tested-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>

neal
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