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net-gro: avoid reorders
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Mon, 7 Nov 2016 19:12:27 +0000 (11:12 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 9 Nov 2016 23:48:54 +0000 (18:48 -0500)
commit20c0dfbf3b8ef43596bcef03b41fa6839372cd29
tree5d14f74159121ee2474fae0f1f22c9438ed94065
parentebb1240947c0c19e37cbc6366b6c6fa837fe148b
net-gro: avoid reorders

Receiving a GSO packet in dev_gro_receive() is not uncommon
in stacked devices, or devices partially implementing LRO/GRO
like bnx2x. GRO is implementing the aggregation the device
was not able to do itself.

Current code causes reorders, like in following case :

For a given flow where sender sent 3 packets P1,P2,P3,P4

Receiver might receive P1 as a single packet, stored in GRO engine.

Then P2-P4 are received as a single GSO packet, immediately given to
upper stack, while P1 is held in GRO engine.

This patch will make sure P1 is given to upper stack, then P2-P4
immediately after.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/dev.c