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    tipc: fall back to smaller MTU if allocation of local send skb fails · 4c94cc2d
    Jon Maloy authored
    When sending node local messages the code is using an 'mtu' of 66060
    bytes to avoid unnecessary fragmentation. During situations of low
    memory tipc_msg_build() may sometimes fail to allocate such large
    buffers, resulting in unnecessary send failures. This can easily be
    remedied by falling back to a smaller MTU, and then reassemble the
    buffer chain as if the message were arriving from a remote node.
    
    At the same time, we change the initial MTU setting of the broadcast
    link to a lower value, so that large messages always are fragmented
    into smaller buffers even when we run in single node mode. Apart from
    obtaining the same advantage as for the 'fallback' solution above, this
    turns out to give a significant performance improvement. This can
    probably be explained with the __pskb_copy() operation performed on the
    buffer for each recipient during reception. We found the optimal value
    for this, considering the most relevant skb pool, to be 3744 bytes.
    Acked-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@ericsson.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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