netdev - Re: [RFC 01/19] staging: qlge: fix incorrect truesize accounting

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Message-ID: <20210624114705.ehmzmysl3vdylg3x@Rk>
Date:   Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:47:05 +0800
From:   Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@...il.com>
To:     Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@...il.com>
Cc:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@...e.com>,
        Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>,
        "supporter:QLOGIC QLGE 10Gb ETHERNET DRIVER" 
        <GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 01/19] staging: qlge: fix incorrect truesize accounting

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 01:55:15PM +0900, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
>On 2021-06-22 19:36 +0800, Coiby Xu wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 05:10:27PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 09:48:44PM +0800, Coiby Xu wrote:
>> > > Commit 7c734359d3504c869132166d159c7f0649f0ab34 ("qlge: Size RX buffers
>> > > based on MTU") introduced page_chunk structure. We should add
>> > > qdev->lbq_buf_size to skb->truesize after __skb_fill_page_desc.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Add a Fixes tag.
>>
>> I will fix it in next version, thanks!
>>
>> >
>> > The runtime impact of this is just that ethtool will report things
>> > incorrectly, right?  It's not 100% from the commit message.  Could you
>> > please edit the commit message so that an ignoramous like myself can
>> > understand it?
>
>truesize is used in socket memory accounting, the stuff behind sysctl
>net.core.rmem_max, SO_RCVBUF, ss -m, ...
>
>Some helpful chap wrote a page about it a while ago:
>http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/skb_sk.html

Thanks for the explanation and the reference!

>
>>
>> I'm not sure how it would affect ethtool. But according to "git log
>> --grep=truesize", it affects coalescing SKBs. Btw, I fixed the issue
>> according to the definition of truesize which according to Linux Kernel
>> Network by Rami Rosen, it's defined as follows,
>> > The total memory allocated for the SKB (including the SKB structure
>> > itself and the size of the allocated data block).
>>
>> I'll edit the commit message to include it, thanks!
>>
>> >
>> > Why is this an RFC instead of just a normal patch which we can apply?
>>
>> After doing the tests mentioned in the cover letter, I found Red Hat's
>> network QE team has quite a rigorous test suite. But I needed to return the
>> machine before having the time to learn about the test suite and run it by
>> myself. So I mark it as an RFC before I borrow the machine again to run the
>> test suite.
>
>Interesting. Is this test suite based on a public project?

The test suite is written for Beaker [1] but it seems it's not public.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Beaker

-- 
Best regards,
Coiby