From: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:23:56 +0100

> The socket level flow control is based on the assumption that incoming
> buffers meet the condition (skb->truesize / roundup(skb->len) <= 4),
> where the latter value is rounded off upwards to the nearest 1k number.
> This does empirically hold true for the device drivers we know, but we
> cannot trust that it will always be so, e.g., in a system with jumbo
> frames and very small packets.
> 
> We now introduce a check for this condition at packet arrival, and if
> we find it to be false, we copy the packet to a new, smaller buffer,
> where the condition will be true. We expect this to affect only a small
> fraction of all incoming packets, if at all.
> 
> Acked-by: Ying Xue <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>

Applied.

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