net:Add sysctl_max_skb_frags
authorHans Westgaard Ry <hans.westgaard.ry@oracle.com>
Wed, 3 Feb 2016 08:26:57 +0000 (09:26 +0100)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Fri, 4 Mar 2016 15:25:49 +0000 (10:25 -0500)
commit3faf465445a1d8677b860eee894aecc3d2e32cc6
treea1369f2ba768c537160d70005ce12e97fc782724
parent797c009c98dbb21127a2549d1106ed19d18661cf
net:Add sysctl_max_skb_frags

[ Upstream commit 5f74f82ea34c0da80ea0b49192bb5ea06e063593 ]

Devices may have limits on the number of fragments in an skb they support.
Current codebase uses a constant as maximum for number of fragments one
skb can hold and use.
When enabling scatter/gather and running traffic with many small messages
the codebase uses the maximum number of fragments and may thereby violate
the max for certain devices.
The patch introduces a global variable as max number of fragments.

Signed-off-by: Hans Westgaard Ry <hans.westgaard.ry@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: HÃ¥kon Bugge <haakon.bugge@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
include/linux/skbuff.h
net/core/skbuff.c
net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
net/ipv4/tcp.c