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From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: tcp: Do not apply TSO segment limit to non-TSO packets
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:39:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2797327.cCdE9QefP4@storm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141231133923.GA30248@gondor.apana.org.au>

Hi Herbert,

On Thursday, 1. January 2015 00:39:23 Herbert Xu wrote:
> The problem is that when the MSS goes down, existing queued packet
> on the TX queue that have not been transmitted yet all look like
> TSO packets and get treated as such.
> 
> This then triggers a bug where tcp_mss_split_point tells us to
> generate a zero-sized packet on the TX queue.  Once that happens
> we're screwed because the zero-sized packet can never be removed
> by ACKs.

picking up this one again: Is there any valid use case to have
zero-sized packets in the TX queue? If not, may be a WARN_ON() could
be added to the processing of the TX queue. That would help to
prevent future issues like this.

Cheers,
Thomas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-19 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-29 11:44 [bisected] xfrm: TCP connection initiating PMTU discovery stalls on v3.12+ Thomas Jarosch
2014-12-01 10:25 ` Herbert Xu
2014-12-01 11:20   ` Thomas Jarosch
2014-12-31 13:39   ` tcp: Do not apply TSO segment limit to non-TSO packets Herbert Xu
2014-12-31 13:42     ` Herbert Xu
2015-01-02 18:24       ` Eric Dumazet
2015-01-02 20:36         ` David Miller
2015-01-02 22:01           ` Herbert Xu
2015-01-02 22:06             ` David Miller
2015-01-02 22:09               ` Herbert Xu
2015-01-02 21:13     ` David Miller
2015-01-16 10:45     ` Thomas Jarosch
2015-01-16 10:50       ` Herbert Xu
2015-01-16 11:03         ` Thomas Jarosch
2015-01-19 13:39     ` Thomas Jarosch [this message]
     [not found]       ` <CANn89i+U-PFbuUrp08s3Ec8BmjPFq1zj8Aj2=vPVO4-iiLkTuw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-01-19 22:36         ` Herbert Xu
2015-01-19 22:38           ` Eric Dumazet
2015-01-19 22:40             ` Herbert Xu
2014-12-01 13:17 ` [bisected] xfrm: TCP connection initiating PMTU discovery stalls on v3.12+ Wolfgang Walter
2014-12-01 16:41   ` Wolfgang Walter
2014-12-05 12:09     ` Wolfgang Walter
2014-12-05 13:26       ` Eric Dumazet
2014-12-08 22:20         ` Wolfgang Walter
2014-12-09  8:54           ` Thomas Jarosch
2014-12-09 14:26             ` [bisected] xfrm: TCP connection initiating PMTU discovery stalls on v3 Eric Dumazet
2014-12-09 14:49               ` Thomas Jarosch
2014-12-09 20:36               ` Wolfgang Walter
2014-12-09 21:40                 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-12-10 18:34                   ` Wolfgang Walter
2014-12-10 19:10                     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-12-11  0:36                       ` Wolfgang Walter
2014-12-12 16:58                       ` Wolfgang Walter
2014-12-12 17:27                         ` Eric Dumazet
2014-12-12 20:31                           ` Wolfgang Walter
2014-12-12 21:30                             ` Thomas Jarosch
2014-12-12 22:31                               ` Eric Dumazet
2014-12-12 23:47                                 ` Wolfgang Walter
2014-12-13  0:15                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-12-13  0:43                                     ` Wolfgang Walter
2014-12-15 18:04                                     ` Wolfgang Walter

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