kernel/linux.git/include/net/gro.h, branch v6.19.11

tcp: gro: inline tcp_gro_pull_header()

2025-11-15T02:00:08+00:00

tcp_gro_pull_header() is used in GRO fast path, inline it. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113140358.58242-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: gro: remove unnecessary df checks

2025-09-25T10:42:49+00:00

Currently, packets with fixed IDs will be merged only if their don't-fragment bit is set. This restriction is unnecessary since packets without the don't-fragment bit will be forwarded as-is even if they were merged together. The merged packets will be segmented into their original forms before being forwarded, either by GSO or by TSO. The IDs will also remain identical unless NETIF_F_TSO_MANGLEID is set, in which case the IDs can become incrementing, which is also fine. Clean up the code by removing the unnecessary don't-fragment checks. Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923085908.4687-5-richardbgobert@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: gro: only merge packets with incrementing or fixed outer ids

2025-09-25T10:42:49+00:00

Only merge encapsulated packets if their outer IDs are either incrementing or fixed, just like for inner IDs and IDs of non-encapsulated packets. Add another ip_fixedid bit for a total of two bits: one for outer IDs (and for unencapsulated packets) and one for inner IDs. This commit preserves the current behavior of GSO where only the IDs of the inner-most headers are restored correctly. Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923085908.4687-3-richardbgobert@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: gro: remove is_ipv6 from napi_gro_cb

2025-09-25T10:42:49+00:00

Remove is_ipv6 from napi_gro_cb and use sk->sk_family instead. This frees up space for another ip_fixedid bit that will be added in the next commit. udp_sock_create always creates either a AF_INET or a AF_INET6 socket, so using sk->sk_family is reliable. In IPv6-FOU, cfg->ipv6_v6only is always enabled. Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250923085908.4687-2-richardbgobert@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: Create separate gro_flush_normal function

2025-07-25T01:34:55+00:00

Move multiple copies of same code snippet doing `gro_flush` and `gro_normal_list` into separate helper function. Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250723013031.2911384-2-skhawaja@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: gro: expose GRO init/cleanup to use outside of NAPI

2025-02-27T13:03:14+00:00

Make GRO init and cleanup functions global to be able to use GRO without a NAPI instance. Taking into account already global gro_flush(), it's now fully usable standalone. New functions are not exported, since they're not supposed to be used outside of the kernel core code. Tested-by: Daniel Xu Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: gro: decouple GRO from the NAPI layer

2025-02-27T13:03:14+00:00

In fact, these two are not tied closely to each other. The only requirements to GRO are to use it in the BH context and have some sane limits on the packet batches, e.g. NAPI has a limit of its budget (64/8/etc.). Move purely GRO fields into a new structure, &gro_node. Embed it into &napi_struct and adjust all the references. gro_node::cached_napi_id is effectively the same as napi_struct::napi_id, but to be used on GRO hotpath to mark skbs. napi_struct::napi_id is now a fully control path field. Three Ethernet drivers use napi_gro_flush() not really meant to be exported, so move it to and add that include there. napi_gro_receive() is used in more than 100 drivers, keep it in . This does not make GRO ready to use outside of the NAPI context yet. Tested-by: Daniel Xu Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values

2025-02-20T09:53:17+00:00

Sabrina reported the following splat: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at net/core/dev.c:6935 netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-net-00092-g011b03359038 #996 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0 Code: e8 c3 e6 6a fe 48 83 c4 28 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc c7 44 24 10 ff ff ff ff e9 8f fb ff ff e8 9e e6 6a fe <0f> 0b e9 d3 fe ff ff e8 92 e6 6a fe 48 8b 04 24 be ff ff ff ff 48 RSP: 0000:ffffc9000001fc60 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88806ce48128 RCX: 1ffff11001664b9e RDX: ffff888008f00040 RSI: ffffffff8317ca42 RDI: ffff88800b325cb6 RBP: ffff88800b325c40 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed100167502c R10: ffff88800b3a8163 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88800ac1c168 R13: ffff88800ac1c168 R14: ffff88800ac1c168 R15: 0000000000000007 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88806ce00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff888008201000 CR3: 0000000004c94001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: gro_cells_init+0x1ba/0x270 xfrm_input_init+0x4b/0x2a0 xfrm_init+0x38/0x50 ip_rt_init+0x2d7/0x350 ip_init+0xf/0x20 inet_init+0x406/0x590 do_one_initcall+0x9d/0x2e0 do_initcalls+0x23b/0x280 kernel_init_freeable+0x445/0x490 kernel_init+0x20/0x1d0 ret_from_fork+0x46/0x80 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 irq event stamp: 584330 hardirqs last enabled at (584338): [] __up_console_sem+0x77/0xb0 hardirqs last disabled at (584345): [] __up_console_sem+0x5c/0xb0 softirqs last enabled at (583242): [] netlink_insert+0x14d/0x470 softirqs last disabled at (583754): [] netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x77d/0xba0 on kernel built with MAX_SKB_FRAGS=45, where SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024) is smaller than GRO_MAX_HEAD. Such built additionally contains the revert of the single page frag cache so that napi_get_frags() ends up using the page frag allocator, triggering the splat. Note that the underlying issue is independent from the mentioned revert; address it ensuring that the small head cache will fit either TCP and GRO allocation and updating napi_alloc_skb() and __netdev_alloc_skb() to select kmalloc() usage for any allocation fitting such cache. Reported-by: Sabrina Dubroca Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Fixes: 3948b05950fd ("net: introduce a config option to tweak MAX_SKB_FRAGS") Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: gro: fix napi_gro_cb zeroed alignment

2024-05-14T17:49:50+00:00

Add 2 byte padding to napi_gro_cb struct to ensure zeroed member is aligned after flush_id member was removed in the original commit. Fixes: 4b0ebbca3e16 ("net: gro: move L3 flush checks to tcp_gro_receive and udp_gro_receive_segment") Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fca08735-c245-49e5-af72-82900634f144@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: gro: move L3 flush checks to tcp_gro_receive and udp_gro_receive_segment

2024-05-13T21:44:06+00:00

{inet,ipv6}_gro_receive functions perform flush checks (ttl, flags, iph->id, ...) against all packets in a loop. These flush checks are used in all merging UDP and TCP flows. These checks need to be done only once and only against the found p skb, since they only affect flush and not same_flow. This patch leverages correct network header offsets from the cb for both outer and inner network headers - allowing these checks to be done only once, in tcp_gro_receive and udp_gro_receive_segment. As a result, NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->flush is not used at all. In addition, flush_id checks are more declarative and contained in inet_gro_flush, thus removing the need for flush_id in napi_gro_cb. This results in less parsing code for non-loop flush tests for TCP and UDP flows. To make sure results are not within noise range - I've made netfilter drop all TCP packets, and measured CPU performance in GRO (in this case GRO is responsible for about 50% of the CPU utilization). perf top while replaying 64 parallel IP/TCP streams merging in GRO: (gro_receive_network_flush is compiled inline to tcp_gro_receive) net-next: 6.94% [kernel] [k] inet_gro_receive 3.02% [kernel] [k] tcp_gro_receive patch applied: 4.27% [kernel] [k] tcp_gro_receive 4.22% [kernel] [k] inet_gro_receive perf top while replaying 64 parallel IP/IP/TCP streams merging in GRO (same results for any encapsulation, in this case inet_gro_receive is top offender in net-next) net-next: 10.09% [kernel] [k] inet_gro_receive 2.08% [kernel] [k] tcp_gro_receive patch applied: 6.97% [kernel] [k] inet_gro_receive 3.68% [kernel] [k] tcp_gro_receive Signed-off-by: Richard Gobert Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240509190819.2985-3-richardbgobert@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski