Thread (37 messages) 37 messages, 6 authors, 2014-05-16

Re: [3.15-rc3] Bisected: xen-netback mangles packets between two guests on a bridge since merge of "TX grant mapping with SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY instead of copy" series.

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2014-05-02 15:35:53

On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 17:40 +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
Yesterday i tried to get packetdrill (https://code.google.com/p/packetdrill/) to 
work to see if i could reproduce with one of it's tests, but didn't get the 
client server stuff working. It seems it has helped with finding and fixing 
previous kernel networking bugs.
If you use recent net-next kernel, you need a packetdrill patch, Neal
might submit it shortly on packetdrill repo.

packetdrill currently does not consume the packets sent on the tun
device, so this triggers the new [1] TCP stack behavior detecting packet
did not yet leaved the host.

[1] :
( http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=1f3279ae0c13cd742731726b0ed195d5f09b14e4 )
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