Patch "virtio_net: fix truesize for mergeable buffers" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

Patch "virtio_net: fix truesize for mergeable buffers" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    virtio_net: fix truesize for mergeable buffers

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     virtio_net-fix-truesize-for-mergeable-buffers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Aug  8 16:27:29 PDT 2017
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:49:49 +0300
Subject: virtio_net: fix truesize for mergeable buffers

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>


[ Upstream commit 1daa8790d0280d2c719658e39bd59fce65efa909 ]

Seth Forshee noticed a performance degradation with some workloads.
This turns out to be due to packet drops.  Euan Kemp noticed that this
is because we drop all packets where length exceeds the truesize, but
for some packets we add in extra memory without updating the truesize.
This in turn was kept around unchanged from ab7db91705e95 ("virtio-net:
auto-tune mergeable rx buffer size for improved performance").  That
commit had an internal reason not to account for the extra space: not
enough bits to do it.  No longer true so let's account for the allocated
length exactly.

Many thanks to Seth Forshee for the report and bisecting and Euan Kemp
for debugging the issue.

Fixes: 680557cf79f8 ("virtio_net: rework mergeable buffer handling")
Reported-by: Euan Kemp <euan.kemp@coreos.com>
Tested-by: Euan Kemp <euan.kemp@coreos.com>
Reported-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -889,21 +889,20 @@ static int add_recvbuf_mergeable(struct
 
 	buf = (char *)page_address(alloc_frag->page) + alloc_frag->offset;
 	buf += headroom; /* advance address leaving hole at front of pkt */
-	ctx = (void *)(unsigned long)len;
 	get_page(alloc_frag->page);
 	alloc_frag->offset += len + headroom;
 	hole = alloc_frag->size - alloc_frag->offset;
 	if (hole < len + headroom) {
 		/* To avoid internal fragmentation, if there is very likely not
 		 * enough space for another buffer, add the remaining space to
-		 * the current buffer. This extra space is not included in
-		 * the truesize stored in ctx.
+		 * the current buffer.
 		 */
 		len += hole;
 		alloc_frag->offset += hole;
 	}
 
 	sg_init_one(rq->sg, buf, len);
+	ctx = (void *)(unsigned long)len;
 	err = virtqueue_add_inbuf_ctx(rq->vq, rq->sg, 1, buf, ctx, gfp);
 	if (err < 0)
 		put_page(virt_to_head_page(buf));


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mst@redhat.com are

queue-4.12/virtio_net-fix-truesize-for-mergeable-buffers.patch