netdev - Re: [PATCHv4 net-next 10/10] net: add support for ipv4 big tcp

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Date:   Wed, 1 Feb 2023 08:38:21 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>,
        Aaron Conole <aconole@...hat.com>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 net-next 10/10] net: add support for ipv4 big tcp

On 1/28/23 8:58 AM, Xin Long wrote:
> Similar to Eric's IPv6 BIG TCP, this patch is to enable IPv4 BIG TCP.
> 
> Firstly, allow sk->sk_gso_max_size to be set to a value greater than
> GSO_LEGACY_MAX_SIZE by not trimming gso_max_size in sk_trim_gso_size()
> for IPv4 TCP sockets.
> 
> Then on TX path, set IP header tot_len to 0 when skb->len > IP_MAX_MTU
> in __ip_local_out() to allow to send BIG TCP packets, and this implies
> that skb->len is the length of a IPv4 packet; On RX path, use skb->len
> as the length of the IPv4 packet when the IP header tot_len is 0 and
> skb->len > IP_MAX_MTU in ip_rcv_core(). As the API iph_set_totlen() and
> skb_ip_totlen() are used in __ip_local_out() and ip_rcv_core(), we only
> need to update these APIs.
> 
> Also in GRO receive, add the check for ETH_P_IP/IPPROTO_TCP, and allows
> the merged packet size >= GRO_LEGACY_MAX_SIZE in skb_gro_receive(). In
> GRO complete, set IP header tot_len to 0 when the merged packet size
> greater than IP_MAX_MTU in iph_set_totlen() so that it can be processed
> on RX path.
> 
> Note that by checking skb_is_gso_tcp() in API iph_totlen(), it makes
> this implementation safe to use iph->len == 0 indicates IPv4 BIG TCP
> packets.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
> ---
>  net/core/gro.c       | 12 +++++++-----
>  net/core/sock.c      | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
>  net/ipv4/af_inet.c   |  7 ++++---
>  net/ipv4/ip_input.c  |  2 +-
>  net/ipv4/ip_output.c |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>