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net_sched: more precise pkt_len computation
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One long standing problem with TSO/GSO/GRO packets is that skb->len
doesn't represent a precise amount of bytes on wire.

Headers are only accounted for the first segment.
For TCP, thats typically 66 bytes per 1448 bytes segment missing,
an error of 4.5 % for normal MSS value.

As consequences :

1) TBF/CBQ/HTB/NETEM/... can send more bytes than the assigned limits.
2) Device stats are slightly under estimated as well.

Fix this by taking account of headers in qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->pkt_len
computation.

Packet schedulers should use qdisc pkt_len instead of skb->len for their
bandwidth limitations, and TSO enabled devices drivers could use pkt_len
if their statistics are not hardware assisted, and if they don't scratch
skb->cb[] first word.

Both egress and ingress paths work, thanks to commit fda55ec
(net: introduce skb_transport_header_was_set()) : If GRO built
a GSO packet, it also set the transport header for us.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@unimore.it>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored and David S. Miller committed Jan 10, 2013
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22 changes: 21 additions & 1 deletion net/core/dev.c
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Expand Up @@ -2532,6 +2532,26 @@ struct netdev_queue *netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev,
return netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, queue_index);
}

static void qdisc_pkt_len_init(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
const struct skb_shared_info *shinfo = skb_shinfo(skb);

qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->pkt_len = skb->len;

/* To get more precise estimation of bytes sent on wire,
* we add to pkt_len the headers size of all segments
*/
if (shinfo->gso_size) {
unsigned int hdr_len = skb_transport_offset(skb);

if (likely(shinfo->gso_type & (SKB_GSO_TCPV4 | SKB_GSO_TCPV6)))
hdr_len += tcp_hdrlen(skb);
else
hdr_len += sizeof(struct udphdr);
qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->pkt_len += (shinfo->gso_segs - 1) * hdr_len;
}
}

static inline int __dev_xmit_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
struct net_device *dev,
struct netdev_queue *txq)
Expand All @@ -2540,7 +2560,7 @@ static inline int __dev_xmit_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
bool contended;
int rc;

qdisc_skb_cb(skb)->pkt_len = skb->len;
qdisc_pkt_len_init(skb);
qdisc_calculate_pkt_len(skb, q);
/*
* Heuristic to force contended enqueues to serialize on a
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