Re: TCP Segmentation Offloading (TSO)

From: Hirokazu Takahashi (taka@valinux.co.jp)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 02:42:43 EST


Hello!

kuznet> > [1] Kudos to
kuznet>
kuznet> Hmm... wait awhile with celebrating, the implementation in tcp is still
kuznet> at level of a toy. Well, and it happens to crash, the patch is enclosed.

I guess it may also depend on bad implementations of csum_partial().
It's wrong that some architecture assume every data in a skbuff are
aligned on a 2byte boundary so that it would access a byte next to
the the last byte where no pages might be there.

And we should know sendfile systemcall also pass pages with any offsets
and any byte while csum_partial() may be called from everywhere
in the kernel including device drivers.

It's time to fix csum_partial().

P.S.
    Using "bswap" is little bit tricky.

Regards,
Hirokazu Takahashi
VP Engineering Dept.
VA Linux Systems Japan

--- linux/arch/i386/lib/checksum.S.BUG Sun Sep 1 17:00:59 2030
+++ linux/arch/i386/lib/checksum.S Mon Sep 2 13:09:09 2030
@@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ csum_partial:
         movl 16(%esp),%ecx # Function arg: int len
         movl 12(%esp),%esi # Function arg: const unsigned char *buf
 
- testl $2, %esi
- jnz 30f
+ testl $3, %esi
+ jnz 25f
 10:
         movl %ecx, %edx
         movl %ecx, %ebx
@@ -145,6 +145,20 @@ csum_partial:
         lea 2(%esi), %esi
         adcl $0, %eax
         jmp 10b
+25:
+ testl $1, %esi
+ jz 30f
+ # buf is odd
+ dec %ecx
+ jl 90f
+ bswap %eax
+ movzbl (%esi), %ebx
+ shll $8, %ebx
+ addl %ebx, %eax
+ adcl $0, %eax
+ inc %esi
+ testl $2, %esi
+ jz 10b
 
 30: subl $2, %ecx
         ja 20b
@@ -211,6 +225,10 @@ csum_partial:
         addl %ebx,%eax
         adcl $0,%eax
 80:
+ testl $1, 12(%esp)
+ jz 90f
+ bswap %eax
+90:
         popl %ebx
         popl %esi
         ret
-
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