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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Solio Sarabia <solio.sarabia@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	sthemmin@microsoft.com, shiny.sebastian@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] veth: propagate bridge GSO to peer
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:26:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1512062799.19682.19.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171130091021.658869b0@xeon-e3>

On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 09:10 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> 
> The problem goes back into the core GSO networking code.
> Something like this is needed.
> 
> static inline bool netif_needs_gso(struct sk_buff *skb,
> 				   const struct net_device *dev,
> 				   netdev_features_t features)
> {
> 	return skb_is_gso(skb) &&
> 		(!skb_gso_ok(skb, features) ||
> 		 unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs > dev-
> >gso_max_segs) ||  << new
> 		 unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size > dev-
> >gso_max_size) ||  << new
> 		 unlikely((skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) &&
> 			  (skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY)));
> }
> 
> What that will do is split up the monster GSO packets if they ever
> bleed
> across from one device to another through the twisty mazes of packet
> processing paths.


Since very few drivers have these gso_max_segs / gso_max_size, check
could be done in their ndo_features_check()

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-30 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-26 18:17 [PATCH RFC 0/2] veth, bridge, and GSO maximums Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-26 18:17 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] br: add notifier for when bridge changes it " Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-26 18:17 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] veth: propagate bridge GSO to peer Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-27  3:13   ` David Ahern
2017-11-27  7:07     ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-27 20:14       ` Solio Sarabia
2017-11-27 21:15         ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-28  1:42           ` Solio Sarabia
2017-11-28  2:02             ` David Ahern
2017-11-30  0:35               ` Solio Sarabia
2017-11-30 17:10                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 17:26                   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2017-11-30 17:36                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 17:38                     ` David Miller
2017-11-30 17:49                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 17:59                       ` Eric Dumazet
2017-11-30 18:08                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 18:10                           ` Eric Dumazet
2017-12-01 20:30               ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 15:47 ` [PATCH RFC 0/2] veth, bridge, and GSO maximums David Miller
2017-11-30 17:11   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 20:50     ` Alexander Duyck

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