linux-stable/drivers/net
Eric Dumazet 2e71a6f808 net: gro: selective flush of packets
Current GRO can hold packets in gro_list for almost unlimited
time, in case napi->poll() handler consumes its budget over and over.

In this case, napi_complete()/napi_gro_flush() are not called.

Another problem is that gro_list is flushed in non friendly way :
We scan the list and complete packets in the reverse order.
(youngest packets first, oldest packets last)
This defeats priorities that sender could have cooked.

Since GRO currently only store TCP packets, we dont really notice the
bug because of retransmits, but this behavior can add unexpected
latencies, particularly on mice flows clamped by elephant flows.

This patch makes sure no packet can stay more than 1 ms in queue, and
only in stress situations.

It also complete packets in the right order to minimize latencies.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-08 14:51:51 -04:00
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appletalk net: Use PTR_RET rather than if(IS_ERR(.. [1] 2012-08-06 13:30:02 -07:00
arcnet
bonding bonding: set qdisc_tx_busylock to avoid LOCKDEP splat 2012-10-04 15:53:48 -04:00
caif caif: fix NULL pointer check 2012-07-24 13:54:16 -07:00
can Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-10-06 03:11:59 +09:00
cris cris: fix eth_v10.c build error 2012-08-03 20:32:31 -07:00
dsa
ethernet net: gro: selective flush of packets 2012-10-08 14:51:51 -04:00
fddi fddi: 64 bit bug in smt_add_para() 2012-09-01 22:44:13 -04:00
hamradio sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/net/hamradio 2012-10-06 03:04:43 +09:00
hippi
hyperv hyperv: Add buffer for extended info after the RNDIS response message. 2012-10-02 14:39:31 -04:00
ieee802154 workqueue: avoid using deprecated functions 2012-10-02 16:01:31 -07:00
irda drivers/net/irda/sh_sir.c: fix error return code 2012-10-07 14:37:11 -04:00
phy Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-09-28 14:40:49 -04:00
plip
ppp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-09-28 14:40:49 -04:00
slip
team team: set qdisc_tx_busylock to avoid LOCKDEP splat 2012-10-04 15:53:48 -04:00
usb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
vmxnet3 vmxnet3: Fix race between dev_open() and register_netdev() 2012-08-15 15:10:42 -07:00
wan sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/net/wan 2012-10-06 03:04:43 +09:00
wimax wimax/i2400m: use is_zero_ether_addr() instead of memcmp() 2012-08-24 13:30:26 -04:00
wireless Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
xen-netback Merge branch 'xenarm-for-linus' of git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm into stable/for-linus-3.7 2012-09-26 16:43:35 -04:00
dummy.c net: fix race condition in several drivers when reading stats 2012-07-22 12:12:32 -07:00
eql.c
ifb.c
Kconfig vxlan: Depend on CONFIG_INET 2012-10-02 14:37:31 -04:00
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c net: loopback: set default mtu to 64K 2012-09-24 16:23:53 -04:00
macvlan.c netlink: add attributes to fdb interface 2012-10-01 18:39:44 -04:00
macvtap.c macvtap: rcu_dereference outside read-lock section 2012-08-12 13:40:48 -07:00
Makefile vxlan: virtual extensible lan 2012-10-01 18:39:45 -04:00
mdio.c
mii.c
netconsole.c netconsole: remove a redundant netconsole_target_put() 2012-08-20 02:59:49 -07:00
rionet.c rapidio/rionet: rework to support multiple RIO master ports 2012-10-06 03:05:23 +09:00
sb1000.c
Space.c
sungem_phy.c
tun.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2012-10-02 11:11:09 -07:00
veth.c veth: Allow to create peer link with given ifindex 2012-08-09 16:18:07 -07:00
virtio_net.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
vxlan.c vxlan: remove unused including <linux/version.h> 2012-10-07 14:50:38 -04:00
xen-netfront.c Features: 2012-10-07 07:13:01 +09:00