Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-netfront: pull on receive skb may need to happen earlier

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 07:52:31AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 08.07.13 at 17:48, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 03:20:26PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> @@ -1014,7 +1025,7 @@ err:
> >>  
> >>  		skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0].page_offset = rx->offset;
> >>  		skb_frag_size_set(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0], rx->status);
> >> -		skb->data_len = rx->status;
> >> +		skb->len = skb->data_len = rx->status;
> > 
> > This is not correct. You should not be needing this. Now you lose count
> > of SKB head len. Try to go without the above line and see if it makes a
> > difference?
> 
> I don't follow - at this point, there's 0 bytes of head (this only
> changes with the first call to __pskb_pull_tail()). Hence ->len ==
> ->data_len seems correct to me (and afaict pulling would do the
> wrong thing if I dropped that change).
> 

My bad, I suggested the wrong thing. :-(

But I would prefer skb->len += skb->data_len. In the case that skb->len
== 0 it's the same as your line while skb->len is not zero it would also
do the right thing.

As for the warning in skb_try_coalesce, I don't see any direct call to
it in netfront, I will need to think about it. It looks like it's really
something very deep in the stack.


Wei.

> Jan