linux/include
Eric Dumazet cef401de7b net: fix possible wrong checksum generation
Pravin Shelar mentioned that GSO could potentially generate
wrong TX checksum if skb has fragments that are overwritten
by the user between the checksum computation and transmit.

He suggested to linearize skbs but this extra copy can be
avoided for normal tcp skbs cooked by tcp_sendmsg().

This patch introduces a new SKB_GSO_SHARED_FRAG flag, set
in skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type if at least one frag can be
modified by the user.

Typical sources of such possible overwrites are {vm}splice(),
sendfile(), and macvtap/tun/virtio_net drivers.

Tested:

$ netperf -H 7.7.8.84
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to
7.7.8.84 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 87380  16384  16384    10.00    3959.52

$ netperf -H 7.7.8.84 -t TCP_SENDFILE
TCP SENDFILE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.8.84 ()
port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 87380  16384  16384    10.00    3216.80

Performance of the SENDFILE is impacted by the extra allocation and
copy, and because we use order-0 pages, while the TCP_STREAM uses
bigger pages.

Reported-by: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-28 00:27:15 -05:00
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acpi PCI changes for the v3.8 merge window: 2012-12-13 12:14:47 -08:00
asm-generic mm: limit mmu_gather batching to fix soft lockups on !CONFIG_PREEMPT 2013-01-04 16:11:46 -08:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: cast5/cast6 - move lookup tables to shared module 2012-12-06 17:16:26 +08:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel 2013-01-11 07:52:48 +10:00
keys
linux net: fix possible wrong checksum generation 2013-01-28 00:27:15 -05:00
math-emu
media
memory
misc
net net: add RCU annotation to sk_dst_cache field 2013-01-28 00:15:28 -05:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma UAPI: Remove empty Kbuild files 2013-01-02 17:36:10 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi SCSI misc on 20121212 2012-12-13 19:20:31 -08:00
sound Merge remote-tracking branch 'asoc/fix/cs4271' into tmp 2013-01-10 12:22:11 +00:00
target target/iscsi_target: Add NodeACL tags for initiator group support 2012-12-13 14:18:09 -08:00
trace Various bug fixes for ext4. Perhaps the most serious bug fixed is one 2013-01-02 09:57:34 -08:00
uapi Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://gitorious.org/linux-can/linux-can-next 2013-01-28 00:19:34 -05:00
video Merge branch 'omap-for-v3.8/fixes-for-merge-window' into omap-for-v3.8/fixes-for-merge-window-v2 2012-12-16 11:28:10 -08:00
xen Bugfixes: 2012-12-18 12:26:54 -08:00
Kbuild UAPI: Remove empty Kbuild files 2013-01-02 17:36:10 -08:00