Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net v2] xen-netback: Fix handling of skbs requiring too many slots

[Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thursday, June 5, 2014, 12:07:34 PM, you wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 07:58:51PM +0100, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
>> A recent commit (a02eb4 "xen-netback: worse-case estimate in 
>> xenvif_rx_action is
>> underestimating") capped the slot estimation to MAX_SKB_FRAGS, but that 
>> triggers
>> the next BUG_ON a few lines down, as the packet consumes more slots than
>> estimated.
>> This patch introduces full_coalesce on the skb callback buffer, which is 
>> used in
>> start_new_rx_buffer() to decide whether netback needs coalescing more
>> aggresively. By doing that, no packet should need more than
>> (XEN_NETIF_MAX_TX_SIZE + 1) / PAGE_SIZE data slots (excluding the optional 
>> GSO
>> slot, it doesn't carry data, therefore irrelevant in this case), as the 
>> provided
>> buffers are fully utilized.
>> 

Hi Zoltan,

JFYI: tested this patch(v2) and it seems to work fine for my testcases, thanks !

--
Sander


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