Hello,
I have developed a small patch for the TCP code in 2.6.19 and it works
flawlessly. A couple of days ago I decided to make it compatible with
2.6.22.5 and have stumbled upon a problem I cannot solve.
In 2.6.19 it seems that all packets (at least the ones my patch work
with) are linear, while they are non-linear in 2.6.22.5. I have searched
through the code (focusing on tcp_sendmsg) to try to figure out what
happens, but can't find any differences that would explain this. Does
anyone know what might be the cause and if there is an easy way to
return to linear skbs (unless that is totally stupid)? I would also like
the benefits offered by the collapsing when retransmitting (which
requires number of fragments to be 0).
Currently I us e the skb_linearize(skb) on all fragmentet packets, which
is not nice :) Both kernels are vanilla kernels with the patch applied,
and I used OpenSuse with 2.6.19 and Ubuntu with 2.6.22.5 (but I guess
that shouldn't matter in this case).
The reason this is a problem is that I copy data between SKBs, and in
2.6.19 I have used memcpy for this purpose. I have looked at the way the
kernel copies data into a non-linear skb in the else-part of the large
if-test in tcp_sendmsg and the skb_copy_bits-function, but I have to
admit that I think the first one is a bit advanced and I don't quite
understand how to use the last one. Does anyone have any easier to
understand examples or explanations on how to copy data from one
non-linear skb to another?
Thanks.
-Kristian
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