netback: set transport header before passing it to kernel
authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:19:58 +0000 (20:19 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:44:44 +0000 (12:44 -0400)
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 <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c

index aa28550..fc8faa7 100644 (file)
@@ -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;
        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++;