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authorPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2018-11-21 18:21:35 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-05-16 19:42:27 +0200
commit82fd06fc4d27b8bbb0a9dc79fb3957bb06ce39cc (patch)
treec0e2527ceb9726855931caa2a16d3070fb6ea5a0 /net/core
parentd03b30d2167b8f35a162e6ca851f1d1c8cfadb06 (diff)
net: don't keep lonely packets forever in the gro hash
[ Upstream commit 605108acfe6233b72e2f803aa1cb59a2af3001ca ] Eric noted that with UDP GRO and NAPI timeout, we could keep a single UDP packet inside the GRO hash forever, if the related NAPI instance calls napi_gro_complete() at an higher frequency than the NAPI timeout. Willem noted that even TCP packets could be trapped there, till the next retransmission. This patch tries to address the issue, flushing the old packets - those with a NAPI_GRO_CB age before the current jiffy - before scheduling the NAPI timeout. The rationale is that such a timeout should be well below a jiffy and we are not flushing packets eligible for sane GRO. v1 -> v2: - clarified the commit message and comment RFC -> v1: - added 'Fixes tags', cleaned-up the wording. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Fixes: 3b47d30396ba ("net: gro: add a per device gro flush timer") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 93a1b07990b8..90ec30d5b851 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5308,11 +5308,14 @@ bool napi_complete_done(struct napi_struct *n, int work_done)
if (work_done)
timeout = n->dev->gro_flush_timeout;
+ /* When the NAPI instance uses a timeout and keeps postponing
+ * it, we need to bound somehow the time packets are kept in
+ * the GRO layer
+ */
+ napi_gro_flush(n, !!timeout);
if (timeout)
hrtimer_start(&n->timer, ns_to_ktime(timeout),
HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED);
- else
- napi_gro_flush(n, false);
}
if (unlikely(!list_empty(&n->poll_list))) {
/* If n->poll_list is not empty, we need to mask irqs */