netdev - Re: SW csum errors

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Date:	Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:40:06 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Kyle Hubert <khubert@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SW csum errors

On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 16:13 -0400, Kyle Hubert wrote:
> My problem is rather specific. I am working on an RDMA device, and we
> have full end to end reliability. However, one of the initial spins of
> our chip had some errors, since fixed, where the csum was unreliable.
> So, we did exactly what Dave Miller warned not to do in the linked
> message. We ran outgoing IP packets through the SKB checksum
> function.. Unfortunately, we occasionally saw NFS csum errors on full
> MTU packets.
> 
> Here is his response:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128286758300676&w=2
> 
> Relevant portion:
> 
> "
> Paged SKBs can have references to page cache pages and similar.  These
> can be updated asynchronously to the transmit, there is no locking at
> all to freeze the contents, and therefore full checksum offload is
> required to support SG correctly.
> 
> So don't get the idea to do the checksum in software in the infiniband
> layer, and advertize hw checksumming support, to get around this :-)
> "
> 
> Now that those chips have long gone, I am left pondering about these
> packets "corrupted" before the device transfers them. Can I get more
> information about these paged SKBs with asynchronous modifications?
> How does NFS use them?

For a start try :

git grep -n SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG
git grep -n skb_has_shared_frag

git show cef401de7be8c4e
git show c9af6db4c11ccc6


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