Re: Any progress on horrible IPoIB perf with kernel 4.5+?

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On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 10:09:51AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111921 describes a
> performance regression introduced by commit 9207f9d45b0a ("net:
> preserve IP control block during GSO segmentation").  I've recently
> run into this when updating my system, since that commit hit stable
> kernel 4.4.y — in my case I noticed because scp over an IPoIB link
> went from ~200 MB/sec down to below 1 MB/sec.  I confirmed that
> reverting that change did fix my performance.

Same for us.

> 
> Obviously just reverting that commit isn't the right answer, since I
> believe the patch description that says the commit fixes a crash.
> However before I start working on this myself, I want to make sure I'm
> not duplicating anyone else's work.  Doug, you mentioned having time
> to work on it back in May — did you figure anything out?  Or is anyone
> else investigating this?

Adding Haakon which as far as i recall has some insights.

> 
> Thanks,
>   Roland
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