On Apr 23, 2013, at 4:51 , ext Simon Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 01:55:43PM +0000, Rajahalme, Jarno (NSN - FI/Espoo)
> wrote:
>>
>> Here the skb_network_header is changed to point to the L3 header. Is it
>> significant that in some cases (?) mpls_stack_depth may remain at zero,
>> even when a MPLS header was in fact added? (See above).
>
> With the current code I believe there are the following cases:
>
> Input: non-MPLS skb: Output: network header and mac_len correspond to the
> beginning of the L3 headers
> Input: MPLS: Output: network header and mac_len correspond to the
> end of the L2 headers.
>
> In the case of MPLS output the end of the L2 headers and the beginning
> of the L3 headers will differ.
>
>
> As far as I know the network header and mac_len only need to correspond to
> the beginning of the L3 header if GSO segmentation will occur (actually,
> some proposed changes to the network stack are required, see "[PATCH 0/2]
> Small Modifications to GSO to allow segmentation of MPLS"). That only
> occurs if the skb is GSO. Which in turn can only occur if the recieved
> packet is non-MPLS. This is because the linux kernel doesn't support
> MPLS offloads on receive (or anywhere else for that matter).
>
> In the case that we have a non-MPLS skb the stack depth starts at zero and
> is tracked. This is used to update the network header and mac_len.
> Otherwise the stack depth is unknown and the network header and mac_len are
> left as-is, corresponding to the end of the L2 headers.
>
> Actually, it is possible to tighten up the if clause to be the following,
> as it is only necessary to update the network header and mac_len for GSO skbs.
>
> if (mpls_stack_depth && skb_is_gso(skb)) {
> ...
> }
>
> It is possible for us to find and track the MPLS stack depth for all cases
> and to update the network header and mac_len. However I don't think that
> there is any run-time benefit and it seems expensive to find out what the
> original stack depth was - I believe it would require parsing the MPLS
> entire stack for each packet.
>
Thanks for explaining this.
I think it would be better to keep updating the the network_header and mac_len
for the Non-MPLS input packets regardless of the GSO status of the skb. It
would be more consistent and less surprising.
Jarno
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