> From: "Stephen Rothwell" <s...@canb.auug.org.au>
> To: "Sven-Haegar Koch" <hae...@sdinet.de>
> Cc: "Eli Cooper" <elicoo...@gmx.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Eric Dumazet"
> <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 10:23:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Large performance regression with 6in4 tunnel (sit)
>
> Hi Sven-Haegar,
>
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 05:06:53 +0100 (CET) Sven-Haegar Koch <hae...@sdinet.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > Somehow this problem description really reminds me of a report on
> > netdev a bit ago, which the following patch fixed:
> >
> > commit 9ee6c5dc816aa8256257f2cd4008a9291ec7e985
> > Author: Lance Richardson <lrich...@redhat.com>
> > Date: Wed Nov 2 16:36:17 2016 -0400
> >
> > ipv4: allow local fragmentation in ip_finish_output_gso()
> >
> > Some configurations (e.g. geneve interface with default
> > MTU of 1500 over an ethernet interface with 1500 MTU) result
> > in the transmission of packets that exceed the configured MTU.
> > While this should be considered to be a "bad" configuration,
> > it is still allowed and should not result in the sending
> > of packets that exceed the configured MTU.
> >
> > Could this be related?
> >
> > I suppose it would be difficult to test this patch on this machine?
>
> The kernel I am running on is based on 4.7.8, so the above patch
> doesn't come close to applying. Most fo what it is reverting was
> introduced in commit 359ebda25aa0 ("net/ipv4: Introduce IPSKB_FRAG_SEGS
> bit to inet_skb_parm.flags") in v4.8-rc1.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell
>
This should be equivalent for 4.7.x:
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 4bd4921..8a253e2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -224,8 +224,7 @@ static int ip_finish_output_gso(struct net *net, struct
sock *sk,
int ret = 0;
/* common case: locally created skb or seglen is <= mtu */
- if (((IPCB(skb)->flags & IPSKB_FORWARDED) == 0) ||
- skb_gso_network_seglen(skb) <= mtu)
+ if (skb_gso_network_seglen(skb) <= mtu)
return ip_finish_output2(net, sk, skb);
/* Slowpath - GSO segment length is exceeding the dst MTU.
