Commit 605108ac authored by Paolo Abeni's avatar Paolo Abeni Committed by David S. Miller

net: don't keep lonely packets forever in the gro hash

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: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Fixes: 3b47d303 ("net: gro: add a per device gro flush timer")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 896585d4
......@@ -5970,11 +5970,14 @@ 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 */
......
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