netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/3] bnxt_en: Set TSO max segs on devices with limits

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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:50:42 -0700
From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, 
	pabeni@...hat.com, pavan.chebbi@...adcom.com, andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com, 
	Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@...adcom.com>, Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/3] bnxt_en: Set TSO max segs on devices with limits

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 5:13 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:53:12 -0700 Michael Chan wrote:
> > Firmware will now advertise a non-zero TSO max segments if the
> > device has a limit.  0 means no limit.  The latest 5760X chip
> > (early revs) has a limit of 2047 that cannot be exceeded.  If
> > exceeded, the chip will send out just a small number of segments.
>
> If we're only going to see 0 or 2047 pulling in the FW interface update
> and depending on newer FW version isn't a great way to fix this, IMHO.
>

This issue only affects the newest chip which just started production
and the production FW has this updated interface.

> TCP has min MSS of 500+ bytes, so 2k segments gives us 1MB LSO at min
> legitimate segment size, right? So this is really just a protection
> against bugs in the TCP stack, letting MSS slide below 100.

That's true for Big TCP, but what about UDP GSO?  Can UDP GSO exceed
2k segments?

>
> For a fix I'd just hardcode this to 2047 or even just 1k, and pull in
> the new FW interface to make it configurable in net-next.
> --
> pw-bot: cr

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