Netdev List
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: LRO/GRO and libpcap packet reordering
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:16:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363302980.29475.45.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUpVKLr0i_3MZS_=dbxMGFzPYkpQh8qrzYqHFbjVqaKAg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 15:58 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> Right.  This is the part that I'm wondering about an efficient fix to
> (i.e. flush GRO state for one flow whenever a packet for the reversed
> flow is seen).

It doesnt seem doable easily, because network header and tcp headers are
handled in two separate functions in GRO stack (inet_gro_receive() &
tcp_gro_receive()

What you could do is changing MAX_GRO_SKBS from 8 to 1
(basically allowing only one flow in GRO stack)

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-14 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-14 20:37 LRO/GRO and libpcap packet reordering Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-14 21:58 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-14 22:45   ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-14 22:54     ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-14 22:58       ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-14 23:16         ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-03-14 23:21           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-14 23:22             ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-14 23:01     ` Ben Hutchings

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1363302980.29475.45.camel@edumazet-glaptop \
    --to=eric.dumazet@gmail.com \
    --cc=bhutchings@solarflare.com \
    --cc=luto@amacapital.net \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox