net: gro: remove obsolete code from skb_gro_receive()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Thu, 5 Mar 2015 21:47:48 +0000 (13:47 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 7 Mar 2015 02:50:55 +0000 (21:50 -0500)
Some drivers use copybreak to copy tiny frames into smaller skb,
and this smaller skb might not have skb->head_frag set for various
reasons.

skb_gro_receive() currently doesn't allow to aggregate the smaller skb
into the previous GRO packet if this GRO packet has at least 2 MSS in
it.

Following workload easily demonstrates the problem.

netperf -t TCP_RR -H target -- -r 3000,3000

(tcpdump shows one GRO packet with 2 MSS, plus one additional packet of
104 bytes that should have been appended.)

It turns out that we can remove code from skb_gro_receive(), because
commit 8a29111c7ca6 ("net: gro: allow to build full sized skb") and its
followups removed the assumption that a GRO packet with a frag_list had
to have an empty head.

Removing this code allows the aggregation of the last (incomplete) frame
in some RPC workloads. Note that tcp_gro_receive() already takes care of
forcing a flush if necessary, including this case.

If we want to avoid using frag_list in the first place (in forwarding
workloads for example, as the outgoing NIC is generally not able to cope
with skbs having a frag_list), we need to address this separately.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/skbuff.c

index 913b94a..47c3241 100644 (file)
@@ -3206,10 +3206,9 @@ int skb_gro_receive(struct sk_buff **head, struct sk_buff *skb)
        struct skb_shared_info *pinfo, *skbinfo = skb_shinfo(skb);
        unsigned int offset = skb_gro_offset(skb);
        unsigned int headlen = skb_headlen(skb);
-       struct sk_buff *nskb, *lp, *p = *head;
        unsigned int len = skb_gro_len(skb);
+       struct sk_buff *lp, *p = *head;
        unsigned int delta_truesize;
-       unsigned int headroom;
 
        if (unlikely(p->len + len >= 65536))
                return -E2BIG;
@@ -3276,48 +3275,6 @@ int skb_gro_receive(struct sk_buff **head, struct sk_buff *skb)
                NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->free = NAPI_GRO_FREE_STOLEN_HEAD;
                goto done;
        }
-       /* switch back to head shinfo */
-       pinfo = skb_shinfo(p);
-
-       if (pinfo->frag_list)
-               goto merge;
-       if (skb_gro_len(p) != pinfo->gso_size)
-               return -E2BIG;
-
-       headroom = skb_headroom(p);
-       nskb = alloc_skb(headroom + skb_gro_offset(p), GFP_ATOMIC);
-       if (unlikely(!nskb))
-               return -ENOMEM;
-
-       __copy_skb_header(nskb, p);
-       nskb->mac_len = p->mac_len;
-
-       skb_reserve(nskb, headroom);
-       __skb_put(nskb, skb_gro_offset(p));
-
-       skb_set_mac_header(nskb, skb_mac_header(p) - p->data);
-       skb_set_network_header(nskb, skb_network_offset(p));
-       skb_set_transport_header(nskb, skb_transport_offset(p));
-
-       __skb_pull(p, skb_gro_offset(p));
-       memcpy(skb_mac_header(nskb), skb_mac_header(p),
-              p->data - skb_mac_header(p));
-
-       skb_shinfo(nskb)->frag_list = p;
-       skb_shinfo(nskb)->gso_size = pinfo->gso_size;
-       pinfo->gso_size = 0;
-       __skb_header_release(p);
-       NAPI_GRO_CB(nskb)->last = p;
-
-       nskb->data_len += p->len;
-       nskb->truesize += p->truesize;
-       nskb->len += p->len;
-
-       *head = nskb;
-       nskb->next = p->next;
-       p->next = NULL;
-
-       p = nskb;
 
 merge:
        delta_truesize = skb->truesize;