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Commit d61d072e authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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net-gro: avoid reorders



Receiving a GSO packet in dev_gro_receive() is not uncommon
in stacked devices, or devices partially implementing LRO/GRO
like bnx2x. GRO is implementing the aggregation the device
was not able to do itself.

Current code causes reorders, like in following case :

For a given flow where sender sent 3 packets P1,P2,P3,P4

Receiver might receive P1 as a single packet, stored in GRO engine.

Then P2-P4 are received as a single GSO packet, immediately given to
upper stack, while P1 is held in GRO engine.

This patch will make sure P1 is given to upper stack, then P2-P4
immediately after.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 8e6e596b
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