I see the receiving side also .Packets are not assembled by ip-defrag . now where packets are assembled at transport layer ?
if yes then how they are assembled ? On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Craig Jackson <cjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry for top-posting before. It's incredibly hard to get Outlook 2007 to do things right.> -----Original Message-----
> From: Varun Sharma [mailto:vsdssd@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 2:45 AM
> To: Craig Jackson; kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx
> Subject: Re: assembly of packets
>
> On receving side upto tcp layer skb->len=1480 now where is packet
> assembled on tcp layer ?
> or it is directly copies into user space buffer.
>
> I am sending len = 10000 in send system call.
>
>> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Craig Jackson <cjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> In my experience, the second paragraph isn't quite true. What you see
>> with TSO is the pre-segmentation "packet", up to 65k. (By this I mean
>> the set of data which is given to the offload hardware to segment.) So
>> you need to make sure that your "-s" value is big enough to see
>> everything.
>>
>> (Speaking as someone who was bitten by bugs in the early versions of
>> TSO.)
>>
>> Craig
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: kernelnewbies-bounces+cjackson=ebscohost.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces+cjackson=ebscohost.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx
>>> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 12:03 PM
>>> To: Varun Sharma
>>> Cc: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: assembly of packets
>>>
>>> On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:48:41 +0530, Varun Sharma said:
>>>
>>> > If TSO(tcp segmentation offload ) is enabled then nic card handle
>>> > segmentation then where is assembly of packets happens ? Is it
>>> > tcp_rcv_established function ?
>
>>> The whole *point* of TSO is so the NIC does all the segmentation
>>> reassembly and DMA, and wake the kernel up when all the data is already
>>> stashed in buffers fully processed.
>
>>> Incidentally, this is why if you run tcpdump on an interface that has
>>> TSO enabled, you'll only see the first 3 handshaking packets and the
>>> final FIN packets - the other packets wake up the TCP stack at a point
>>> after where tcpdump's tap would have seen the packet.
Varun, I now see we may not have answered the question you have. TSO (TCP Segementation Offload)
is associated with sending packets, not receiving them. They are re-assembled at the receiving
end in the standard manner.
Are you actually thinking of GRO (Generic Receive Offload)?
Craig
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