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Commit 78a50a5e authored by Hans Westgaard Ry's avatar Hans Westgaard Ry Committed by Doug Ledford
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IB/ipoib: Add handling for sending of skb with many frags



IPoIB converts skb-fragments to sge adding 1 extra sge when SG is enabled.
Current codepath assumes that the max number of sge a device support
is at least MAX_SKB_FRAGS+1, there is no interaction with upper layers
to limit number of fragments in an skb if a device suports fewer
sges. The assumptions also lead to requesting a fixed number of sge
when IPoIB creates queue-pairs with SG enabled.

A fallback/slowpath is implemented using skb_linearize to
handle cases where the conversion would result in more sges than supported.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Westgaard Ry <hans.westgaard.ry@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHåkon Bugge <haakon.bugge@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWei Lin Guay <wei.lin.guay@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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