From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Eggers <ceggers@arri.de>,
Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>,
Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: ksz: fix padding size of skb
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:13:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201016181319.2jrbdp5h7avzjczj@skbuf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201016110311.6a43e10d@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:03:11AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:56:45 +0300 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > > 3. "Manually" unsharing in dsa_slave_xmit(), reserving enough tailroom
> > > for the tail tag (and ETH_ZLEN?). Would moving the "else" clause from
> > > ksz_common_xmit() to dsa_slave_xmit() do the job correctly?
> >
> > I was thinking about something like that, indeed. DSA knows everything
> > about the tagger: its overhead, whether it's a tail tag or not. The xmit
> > callback of the tagger should only be there to populate the tag where it
> > needs to be. But reallocation, padding, etc etc, should all be dealt
> > with by the common DSA xmit procedure. We want the taggers to be simple
> > and reuse as much logic as possible, not to be bloated.
>
> FWIW if you want to avoid the reallocs you may want to set
> needed_tailroom on the netdev.
Tell me more about that, I've been meaning since forever to try it out.
I read about needed_headroom and needed_tailroom, and it's one of the
reasons why I added the .tail_tag option in the DSA tagger (to
distinguish whether a switch needs headroom or tailroom), but I can't
figure out, just from static analysis of the code, where exactly is the
needed tailroom being accounted for. For example, if I'm in Christian's
situation, e.g. I have a packet smaller than ETH_ZLEN, would the
tailroom be enough to hold just the dev->needed_tailroom, or would there
be enough space in the skb for the entire ETH_ZLEN + dev->needed_tailroom?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-16 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-14 16:17 [PATCH net] net: dsa: ksz: fix padding size of skb Christian Eggers
2020-10-14 16:47 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-14 16:54 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-14 17:02 ` Christian Eggers
2020-10-14 17:31 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-15 17:58 ` Christian Eggers
2020-10-16 7:45 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2020-10-16 9:00 ` Christian Eggers
2020-10-16 9:05 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-16 12:44 ` Christian Eggers
2020-10-16 15:56 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-10-16 18:03 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-16 18:13 ` Vladimir Oltean [this message]
2020-10-16 18:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
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