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 00:21:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363303289.29475.47.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363302980.29475.45.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 00:16 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 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)
>
>
Well, its not enough, some changes would be needed to force a flush each
time a new flow is detected.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-14 23:21 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
2013-03-14 23:21 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-03-14 23:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-14 23:01 ` Ben Hutchings
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