Thread (186 messages) 186 messages, 11 authors, 2009-02-06

Re: [PATCH] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

From: Jarek Poplawski <hidden>
Date: 2009-01-16 06:51:36
Also in: lkml

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:44:08AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:42:55AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:34:49PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:32:05 +1100
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:26:08PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
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+static inline struct page *linear_to_page(struct page *page, unsigned int len,
+					  unsigned int offset)
+{
+	struct page *p = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+
+	if (!p)
+		return NULL;
+	memcpy(page_address(p) + offset, page_address(page) + offset, len);
This won't work very well if skb->head is longer than a page.

We'll need to divide it up into individual pages.
Oh yes the same bug I pointed out the other day.

But Willy can test this patch as-is,
Hey, nice work Dave. +3% performance from your previous patch
(31.6 MB/s). It's going fine and stable here.
And BTW feel free to add my Tested-by if you want in case you merge
this fix.

Willy
Herbert, good catch!

David, if it's not too late I think more credits are needed,
especially for Willy. He did "a bit" more than testing.

Alas, I can't see this problem with skb->head longer than page. There
is even some comment on this in __splice_segment(), but I can miss
something.

I'm more concerned with memory usage if these skbs are not acked for
some reason. Isn't there some DOS issue possible?

Thanks everybody,
Jarek P.
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Based on a review by Changli Gao [off-list ref]:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/26/210

Foreseen-by: Changli Gao [off-list ref]
Diagnosed-by: Willy Tarreau [off-list ref]
Reported-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Fixed-by: Jens Axboe [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <redacted>
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