lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [Sep]   [10]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: 3.17-rc1 oops during network interface configuration
From
Date
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 10:42 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:

> Hi Chuck, thanks for bisecting this out. Indeed, as of this kernel 3.2
> commit 936d7de "IPoIB: Stop lying about hard_header_len and use skb->cb
> to stash LL addresses" we are using the skb->cb field to enable proper
> work under GRO and avoid another historical quirk we had there... so I
> think we can definetly consider commit e0f31d849 to introduce a severe
> regression... Govindarajulu, Dave - what's your thinking here? any quick
> idea on how to fix?

I mentioned the IB stuff when patch was posted, and David replied :

"I think this is fine, IPOIB's control block will need still just 44
bytes after these changes, so there will still be 4 bytes to spare."

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/357584/

My suggestion was to reduce sch_choke usage and not store the whole
flow_keys.





\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-09-10 17:01    [W:0.074 / U:0.392 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site