This partly reverts the below mentioned patch because on forwarding, such skbs can't be offloaded to a NIC.
We need this to get IPsec GRO for forwarding to work properly, otherwise the GRO aggregated packets get segmented again by the GSO layer. Although discovered when implementing IPsec GRO, this is a general problem in the forwarding path. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- commit 8a29111c7ca68d928dfab58636f3f6acf0ac04f7 Author: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Date: Tue Oct 8 09:02:23 2013 -0700 net: gro: allow to build full sized skb skb_gro_receive() is currently limited to 16 or 17 MSS per GRO skb, typically 24616 bytes, because it fills up to MAX_SKB_FRAGS frags. It's relatively easy to extend the skb using frag_list to allow more frags to be appended into the last sk_buff. This still builds very efficient skbs, and allows reaching 45 MSS per skb. (45 MSS GRO packet uses one skb plus a frag_list containing 2 additional sk_buff) High speed TCP flows benefit from this extension by lowering TCP stack cpu usage (less packets stored in receive queue, less ACK packets processed) Forwarding setups could be hurt, as such skbs will need to be linearized, although its not a new problem, as GRO could already provide skbs with a frag_list. We could make the 65536 bytes threshold a tunable to mitigate this. (First time we need to linearize skb in skb_needs_linearize(), we could lower the tunable to ~16*1460 so that following skb_gro_receive() calls build smaller skbs) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klass...@secunet.com> --- Hi Eric, this is a followup on our discussion at the netdev conference. Would you still be ok with this revert, or do you think there is a better solution in sight? The full IPsec patchset for what I need this can be found here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/klassert/linux-stk.git/log/?h=net-next-ipsec-offload-work net/core/skbuff.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index 4cc594c..fb11a9b 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -3347,7 +3347,7 @@ int skb_gro_receive(struct sk_buff **head, struct sk_buff *skb) int nr_frags = pinfo->nr_frags + i; if (nr_frags > MAX_SKB_FRAGS) - goto merge; + return -E2BIG; offset -= headlen; pinfo->nr_frags = nr_frags; @@ -3380,7 +3380,7 @@ int skb_gro_receive(struct sk_buff **head, struct sk_buff *skb) unsigned int first_offset; if (nr_frags + 1 + skbinfo->nr_frags > MAX_SKB_FRAGS) - goto merge; + return -E2BIG; first_offset = skb->data - (unsigned char *)page_address(page) + @@ -3400,7 +3400,6 @@ int skb_gro_receive(struct sk_buff **head, struct sk_buff *skb) goto done; } -merge: delta_truesize = skb->truesize; if (offset > headlen) { unsigned int eat = offset - headlen; -- 1.9.1