receive path with fragmented skbs

From: Kallol Biswas (kallol.biswas_at_s2io.com)
Date: 01/31/04

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Date:	30 Jan 2004 15:12:24 -0800

    Hello,
          We have been developing drivers and networking software on
    a 10 gigabit ethernet adapter from S2io Inc (www.s2io.com). There is a
    requirement that the ethernet header, IP+TCP headers have to be cache
    aligned and the payload and the IP+TCP headers have to be in different
    fragments. So we have created receive path skbs with data size big
    enough to hold the ethernet header and two fragments, one fragment for
    the IP+TCP header and the other for payload. The card can directly dma
    into the three receive scatter buffers when a frame arrives.

    We could not get ping working with this design of receive skbs,
    but if a skb is linearized with skb_linearize() before calling
    netif_rx(), ping works.

    /proc/net/snmp was printed, no frame had any error. Probably no one has
    ever tested the receive path of the stack with fragmented skbs, am I
    right? One of the ways this problem can be debugged is to find out where
    exactly the packets get dropped. Any comment?

    Kallol

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