Re: [Xen-devel] xen-netback: count number required slots for an skb more carefully

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:36:10AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 23:04 -0700, Matt Wilson wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 10:25:59AM +0800, annie li wrote:
> > > On 2013-9-4 5:53, Wei Liu wrote:
> > [...]
> > > >Matt, do you fancy sending the final version? IIRC the commit message
> > > >needs to be re-written. I personally still prefer Matt's solution as
> > > >it a) make efficient use of the ring, b) uses ring pointers to
> > > >calculate slots which is most accurate, c) removes the dependence on
> > > >MAX_SKB_FRAGS in guest RX path.
> > > >
> > > >Anyway, we should get this fixed ASAP.
> 
> Yes. Would there be any harm in just applying David's patch (just
> because it is the one currently in our hands and it is based on a recent
> enough kernel). It looks right from a correctness PoV to me.
> 
> > > Totally agree. This issue is easy to be reproduced with large MTU.
> > > It is better to upstream the fix soon in case others hit it and
> > > waste time to fix it.
> > 
> > I'd like to go with Xi's proposed patch that I posed earlier.
> 
> I don't think I saw that, do you have a message-id?
> 
> ("Xi" is a bit too short for a search on my INBOX unfortunately).
> 

This one <1373409659-22383-1-git-send-email-msw@xxxxxxxxxx>

Wei.

> >  The main
> > thing that's kept me from sending a final version is lack of time to
> > retest against a newer kernel.
> > 
> > Could someone help out with that? I probably can't get to it until the
> > end of the week.
> > 
> > Sorry for the delay. :-(
> > 
> > --msw
> 

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