On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 06:19 +0000, Jason Wang wrote:
> Currently, for the packets receives from netback, before doing header check,
> kernel just reset the transport header in netif_receive_skb() which pretends 
> non
> l4 header. This is suboptimal for precise packet length estimation (introduced
> in 1def9238: net_sched: more precise pkt_len computation) which needs correct 
> l4
> header for gso packets.
> 
> The patch just reuse the header probed by netback for partial checksum packets
> and tries to use skb_flow_dissect() for other cases, if both fail, just 
> pretend
> no l4 header.
> 
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c |   12 ++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c 
> b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> index aa28550..fc8faa7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
>  #include <linux/udp.h>
>  
>  #include <net/tcp.h>
> +#include <net/flow_keys.h>
>  
>  #include <xen/xen.h>
>  #include <xen/events.h>
> @@ -1184,6 +1185,7 @@ static int checksum_setup(struct xenvif *vif, struct 
> sk_buff *skb)
>       if (th >= skb_tail_pointer(skb))
>               goto out;
>  
> +     skb_set_transport_header(skb, 4 * iph->ihl);
>       skb->csum_start = th - skb->head;

Should the use of th here (and perhaps above) be replaced with
skb_transport_header() too?

>       switch (iph->protocol) {
>       case IPPROTO_TCP:
> @@ -1495,6 +1497,7 @@ static void xen_netbk_tx_submit(struct xen_netbk *netbk)
>  
>               skb->dev      = vif->dev;
>               skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, skb->dev);
> +             skb_reset_network_header(skb);
>  
>               if (checksum_setup(vif, skb)) {
>                       netdev_dbg(vif->dev,
> @@ -1503,6 +1506,15 @@ static void xen_netbk_tx_submit(struct xen_netbk 
> *netbk)
>                       continue;
>               }
>  
> +             if (!skb_transport_header_was_set(skb)) {
> +                     struct flow_keys keys;
> +
> +                     if (skb_flow_dissect(skb, &keys))
> +                             skb_set_transport_header(skb, keys.thoff);
> +                     else
> +                             skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
> +             }
> +
>               vif->dev->stats.rx_bytes += skb->len;
>               vif->dev->stats.rx_packets++;
>  


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