netdev - RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net v5] xen-netback: fix fragment detection in checksum setup

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Date:	Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:12:02 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@...rix.com>
Cc:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@...rix.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net v5] xen-netback: fix fragment detection
 in checksum setup

On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 16:24 +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:

> Yes, I guess that's true but if we decide to pull up at all then is it harmful to pull more than we absolutely need?

Pulling too many bytes might hurt aggregation.

When one skb is merged to another one (skb_try_coalesce()), if you have
payload in skb->head, we cannot free the head, and need one additional
'frag'



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