Re: [PATCH net 0/7] tcp: preserve advertised rwnd accounting across receive-memory decisions

Eric Dumazet
2026-03-12T01:49:13Z

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 1:41 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:34:32 +0100 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Your series will heavily conflict with Simon's one
> >
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/list/?series=1063486&state=%2A&archive=both
> >
> > I suggest you rebase/retest/resend after we merge it.
>
> Would it make sense to extend netdevsim and packetdrill to be able to
> exercise scaling ratio a little more? Having it optionally clone the
> skb and truesize += X would be trivial. IDK how many bugs this would
> let us catch tho :(

Yes, I think we mentioned this at some point.
packetdrill uses tun device.
Adding a TUN ioctl() to control how many additional bytes are added to
skb->truesize after tun allocates an skb is doable.