On Sat, 2017-10-14 at 16:27 +0900, Koichiro Den wrote:
> On the starting point chosen, it could be possible that just one skb
> remains in between the range provided, leading to copying and re-insertion
> of rb node, which is useless with respect to the rcv buf measurement.
> This is rather probable in ooo queue case, in which non-contiguous bloated
> packets have been queued up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <d...@klaipeden.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> index d0682ce2a5d6..1d785b5bf62d 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> @@ -4807,7 +4807,8 @@ tcp_collapse(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff_head 
> *list, struct rb_root *root,
>               start = TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq;
>       }
>       if (end_of_skbs ||
> -         (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & (TCPHDR_SYN | TCPHDR_FIN)))
> +         (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & (TCPHDR_SYN | TCPHDR_FIN)) ||
> +         (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->seq == start && TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq == end))
>               return;
>  
>       __skb_queue_head_init(&tmp);


What do you mean by useless ?

Surely if this skb contains 17 segments (some USB drivers allocate 8KB
per frame), we want to collapse them to save memory.

So I do not agree with this patch.


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