From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: "Yang Huajian(杨华健)" <huajianyang@asrmicro.com>
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Subject: Re: 答复: [PATCH] net: Expand headroom to send fragmented packets in bridge fragment forward
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 12:45:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250409104525.GC17911@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a711412f54c4dc6a7d58f4fa391dc0f@exch03.asrmicro.com>
Yang Huajian(杨华健) <huajianyang@asrmicro.com> wrote:
> > if (skb_headroom(skb) < ll_rs)
> > goto expand_headroom;
>
> > ... but I'm not sure what the actual problem is.
>
> Yes, your guess is correct!
>
> Actual problem: I think it is unreasonable to directly drop skb with insufficient headroom.
>
> > Why does this need to make a full skb copy?
> > Should that be using skb_expand_head()?
>
> Using skb_expand_head has the same effect.
> > Actually, can't you just (re)use the slowpath for the skb_headroom < ll_rs case instead of adding headroom expansion?
>
> I tested it just now, reuse the slowpath will successed.
> But maybe this change cannot resolve all cases if the netdevice really needs this headroom.
The slowpath considers headroom requirements, see ip_frag_next():
skb2 = alloc_skb(len + state->hlen + state->ll_rs, GFP_ATOMIC);
You should wait for more feedback and then send a v2 tomorrow.
Thanks!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-09 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-09 7:33 [PATCH] net: Expand headroom to send fragmented packets in bridge fragment forward Huajian Yang
2025-04-09 9:18 ` Florian Westphal
2025-04-09 10:27 ` 答复: " Yang Huajian(杨华健)
2025-04-09 10:45 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
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