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SubjectRe: RFC: MTU for serving NFS on Infiniband
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On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 09:14 -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:44:37 -0600 (MDT)
> > Marc Aurele La France <tsi@ualberta.ca> wrote:
> >> In regrouping for my next tack at this, I noticed that all stack traces go
> >> through ip_append_data(). This would be ipv6_append_data() in the IPv6 case.
> >> A _very_ rough draft that would have ip_append_data() temporarily drop down
> >> to a smaller fake MTU follows ...
>
> > Why doesn't NFS generate page size fragments? Does Infiniband or your
> > device not support this? Any thing that requires higher order allocation
> > is going to unstable under load. Let's fix the cause not the apply bandaid
> > solution to the symptom.
>
> From what I can tell, IP fragmentation is done centrally.
[...]

Stephen and I are not talking about IP fragmentation, but about the
ability to append 'fragments' to an skb rather than putting the entire
packet payload in a linear buffer. See
<http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/skb_data.html>.

Ben.

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