From 605108acfe6233b72e2f803aa1cb59a2af3001ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Abeni Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:21:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] net: don't keep lonely packets forever in the gro hash Eric noted that with UDP GRO and NAPI timeout, we could keep a single UDP packet inside the GRO hash forever, if the related NAPI instance calls napi_gro_complete() at an higher frequency than the NAPI timeout. Willem noted that even TCP packets could be trapped there, till the next retransmission. This patch tries to address the issue, flushing the old packets - those with a NAPI_GRO_CB age before the current jiffy - before scheduling the NAPI timeout. The rationale is that such a timeout should be well below a jiffy and we are not flushing packets eligible for sane GRO. v1 -> v2: - clarified the commit message and comment RFC -> v1: - added 'Fixes tags', cleaned-up the wording. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet Fixes: 3b47d30396ba ("net: gro: add a per device gro flush timer") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 066aa902d85c..ddc551f24ba2 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -5970,11 +5970,14 @@ bool napi_complete_done(struct napi_struct *n, int work_done) if (work_done) timeout = n->dev->gro_flush_timeout; + /* When the NAPI instance uses a timeout and keeps postponing + * it, we need to bound somehow the time packets are kept in + * the GRO layer + */ + napi_gro_flush(n, !!timeout); if (timeout) hrtimer_start(&n->timer, ns_to_ktime(timeout), HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED); - else - napi_gro_flush(n, false); } if (unlikely(!list_empty(&n->poll_list))) { /* If n->poll_list is not empty, we need to mask irqs */ -- 2.11.0