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: Hans Westgaard Ry <hans.westgaard.ry@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Håkon Bugge <haakon.bugge@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Lin Guay <wei.lin.guay@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c
index fa9c42f..899e6b7 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c
@@ -538,6 +538,7 @@ void ipoib_send(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	struct ipoib_tx_buf *tx_req;
 	int hlen, rc;
 	void *phead;
+	unsigned usable_sge = priv->max_send_sge - !!skb_headlen(skb);
 
 	if (skb_is_gso(skb)) {
 		hlen = skb_transport_offset(skb) + tcp_hdrlen(skb);
@@ -561,6 +562,23 @@ void ipoib_send(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		phead = NULL;
 		hlen  = 0;
 	}
+	if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags > usable_sge) {
+		if (skb_linearize(skb) < 0) {
+			ipoib_warn(priv, "skb could not be linearized\n");
+			++dev->stats.tx_dropped;
+			++dev->stats.tx_errors;
+			dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+			return;
+		}
+		/* Does skb_linearize return ok without reducing nr_frags? */
+		if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags > usable_sge) {
+			ipoib_warn(priv, "too many frags after skb linearize\n");
+			++dev->stats.tx_dropped;
+			++dev->stats.tx_errors;
+			dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+			return;
+		}
+	}
 
 	ipoib_dbg_data(priv, "sending packet, length=%d address=%p qpn=0x%06x\n",
 		       skb->len, address, qpn);