net: don't keep lonely packets forever in the gro hash
Eric noted that with UDP GRO and NAPI timeout, we could keep a single UDP packet inside the GRO hash forever, if the related NAPI instance calls napi_gro_complete() at an higher frequency than the NAPI timeout. Willem noted that even TCP packets could be trapped there, till the next retransmission. This patch tries to address the issue, flushing the old packets - those with a NAPI_GRO_CB age before the current jiffy - before scheduling the NAPI timeout. The rationale is that such a timeout should be well below a jiffy and we are not flushing packets eligible for sane GRO. v1 -> v2: - clarified the commit message and comment RFC -> v1: - added 'Fixes tags', cleaned-up the wording. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Fixes: 3b47d303 ("net: gro: add a per device gro flush timer") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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