Re: skbuff truesize incorrect.

[Eric Dumazet]

On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 20:07 +0100, Jim Baxter wrote:

> 
> I have been investigating a network issue with bursts of network traffic
> over USB CDC-NCM, the issue is that the kernel is dropping packets
> because sk_rcvqueues_full() returns true due to skb2->truesize is always
> 32960 instead of SKB_TRUESIZE(skb2->len) which is about 1800.
> 
> The code I am trying to fix is this code below, it is splitting a set of
> multiple network packets compressed into a single 16k packet into
> individual skb's and sending them up the network stack.

if skb are allocated with 16k = 16384 bytes, adding the struct
skb_shared_info overhead and rounding up to power of two gives 32768
bytes.

Chances to be able to allocate 32KB contiguous memory are slim after a
while.

I would set rx_max (rx_urb_size) to SKB_MAX_HEAD(0) so that you do not
use high order allocations.

What is the exact 'overhead' using ~4K instead of 16K exactly on this
hardware ?



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