Increase GRO segments to 64 - #1354
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The GRO segment size (what we call stride), is set dynamically depending on the first datagram that starts a GRO list [0]. Unless the receive buffer passed to recvmmsg() is an exact multiple of the segment size, segments could be truncated since recvmmsg() will happily fill the whole buffer it's given regardless of whether it's aligned to segment boundaries or not. Bump the value returned by gro::gro_segments() to the maximum allowed by the kernel so that get_max_udp_payload_size() * gro::gro_segments() will always be large enough to hold the largest GRO list the kernel might produce, so that recvmmsg() will never truncate. [0]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/1e8a3f0d2a1ef544611a7ea4a7c1512c732e0e43/net/core/gro.c#L543
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Welp, this was a bit of a head scratcher.
While running
perf_serverandperf_clientfrom two different hosts (and so not on loopback), I noticed that occasionally I was getting the following debug logs:It turns out that these logs are due to truncated GRO segments.
After some kernel spelunking, I noticed this: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/1e8a3f0d2a1ef544611a7ea4a7c1512c732e0e43/net/core/gro.c#L543. The GRO segment size (what we call
stride), is set dynamically depending on the first datagram that starts a GRO list. Unless the receive buffer passed torecvmmsg()is an exact multiple of the segment size, segments can be truncated sincerecvmmsg()will happily fill the whole buffer it's given regardless of whether it's aligned to segment boundaries or not (this is a wart of the API, since in some cases it is ok for the last segment to be shorter than all the others).The fix is to bump the value we return from
gro::gro_segments()to the maximum allowed by the kernel (64, which incidentally is also the value we set for GSO). This wayget_max_udp_payload_size() * gro::gro_segments()will always be strictly larger than the GRO lists the kernel produces, sorecvmmsg()won't truncate.