Re: [PATCH net] net: gro: flush the real oldest skb

[Jason Xing]

This patch has some problems. I got wrong with the @skb->list. Please ignore it.

Thanks,
Jason

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 4:50 PM <kerneljasonxing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Jason Xing <xingwanli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Prior to this patch, when the count of skbs of one flow is larger than
> MAX_GRO_SKBS, gro_flush_oldest() flushes the tail of the list. However,
> as we can see in the merge part of skb_gro_receive(), the tail of the
> list is the newest, head oldest.
>
> Here, we need to fetch the real oldest one and then process it to lower
> the latency.
>
> Fix: 07d78363dc ("net: Convert NAPI gro list into a small hash table.")
> Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <xingwanli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 7ee9fec..d52ebdb 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -6012,7 +6012,7 @@ static void gro_flush_oldest(struct napi_struct *napi, struct list_head *head)
>  {
>         struct sk_buff *oldest;
>
> -       oldest = list_last_entry(head, struct sk_buff, list);
> +       oldest = list_first_entry(head, struct sk_buff, list);
>
>         /* We are called with head length >= MAX_GRO_SKBS, so this is
>          * impossible.
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>