Re: Resurrecting due to huge ipoib perf regression - [BUG] skb corruption and kernel panic at forwarding with fragmentation

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Fri Jul 08 2016 - 10:18:43 EST


On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have neighbour_priv, and ndo_neigh_construct/destruct now ..
>
> A first blush that would seem to be enough to let ipoib store the AH
> and other path information in the neigh and avoid the cb? At least the
> example in clip sure looks like what ipoib needs to do.

Do you think those new facilities let us go back to using the neigh
and still avoid the issues that led to commit b63b70d87741 ("IPoIB:
Use a private hash table for path lookup in xmit path")?

- R.