Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6/gre: Add GRO support

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On 04/02/2018 08:00 AM, Eran Ben Elisha wrote:
>>>> Seems good, but why isn't this handled directly in GRO native layer ?
>>> ip6_tunnel and ip6_gre do not share initialization flow functions (unlike ipv4).
>>> Changing the ipv6 init infrastructure should not be part of this
>>> patch. we prefer to keep this one minimal, simple and safe.
>>
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>> Looking at gre_gro_receive() and gre_gro_complete() I could not see why they
>> could not be copied/pasted to IPv6.
> 
> These functions to handle GRO over GRE are already assigned in
> gre_offload_init() (in net/ipv4/gre_offload.c under CONFIG_IPV6).
> However without initializing the gro_cells, the receive path will not
> go via napi_gro_receive path, but directly to netif_rx.
> So AFAIU, only gcells->cells was missing for gro_cells_receive to
> really go via GRO flow.
> 
>>
>> Maybe give more details on the changelog, it is really not obvious.
> Hopefully the above filled this request.
>>

Not really :/

gro_cells_receive() is not really useful with native GRO, since packet is already
a GRO packet by the time it reaches ip_tunnel_rcv() or __ip6_tnl_rcv()

Sure, it might be usefull if native GRO (happening on eth0 if you prefer) did not
handle a particular encapsulation.

gro_cell was a work around before we extended GRO to be able to decap some tunnel headers.

It seems we have to extend this to also support GRE6.