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net/mlx4: Remove jumbo_remove step from TX path
authorAlice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
Thu, 5 Feb 2026 13:39:19 +0000 (15:39 +0200)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Sat, 7 Feb 2026 04:50:12 +0000 (20:50 -0800)
Now that the kernel doesn't insert HBH for BIG TCP IPv6 packets, remove
unnecessary steps from the mlx4 TX path, that used to check and remove
HBH.

Signed-off-by: Alice Mikityanska <alice@isovalent.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205133925.526371-7-alice.kernel@fastmail.im
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c

index 87f35bcbeff8f3752753c1f241701933c00e9759..c5d564e5a58148fdbb8d96fc59f852b0fbf926be 100644 (file)
@@ -636,28 +636,20 @@ static int get_real_size(const struct sk_buff *skb,
                         struct net_device *dev,
                         int *lso_header_size,
                         bool *inline_ok,
-                        void **pfrag,
-                        int *hopbyhop)
+                        void **pfrag)
 {
        struct mlx4_en_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
        int real_size;
 
        if (shinfo->gso_size) {
                *inline_ok = false;
-               *hopbyhop = 0;
                if (skb->encapsulation) {
                        *lso_header_size = skb_inner_tcp_all_headers(skb);
                } else {
-                       /* Detects large IPV6 TCP packets and prepares for removal of
-                        * HBH header that has been pushed by ip6_xmit(),
-                        * mainly so that tcpdump can dissect them.
-                        */
-                       if (ipv6_has_hopopt_jumbo(skb))
-                               *hopbyhop = sizeof(struct hop_jumbo_hdr);
                        *lso_header_size = skb_tcp_all_headers(skb);
                }
                real_size = CTRL_SIZE + shinfo->nr_frags * DS_SIZE +
-                       ALIGN(*lso_header_size - *hopbyhop + 4, DS_SIZE);
+                       ALIGN(*lso_header_size + 4, DS_SIZE);
                if (unlikely(*lso_header_size != skb_headlen(skb))) {
                        /* We add a segment for the skb linear buffer only if
                         * it contains data */
@@ -884,7 +876,6 @@ netdev_tx_t mlx4_en_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
        int desc_size;
        int real_size;
        u32 index, bf_index;
-       struct ipv6hdr *h6;
        __be32 op_own;
        int lso_header_size;
        void *fragptr = NULL;
@@ -893,7 +884,6 @@ netdev_tx_t mlx4_en_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
        bool stop_queue;
        bool inline_ok;
        u8 data_offset;
-       int hopbyhop;
        bool bf_ok;
 
        tx_ind = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);
@@ -903,7 +893,7 @@ netdev_tx_t mlx4_en_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
                goto tx_drop;
 
        real_size = get_real_size(skb, shinfo, dev, &lso_header_size,
-                                 &inline_ok, &fragptr, &hopbyhop);
+                                 &inline_ok, &fragptr);
        if (unlikely(!real_size))
                goto tx_drop_count;
 
@@ -956,7 +946,7 @@ netdev_tx_t mlx4_en_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
                data = &tx_desc->data;
                data_offset = offsetof(struct mlx4_en_tx_desc, data);
        } else {
-               int lso_align = ALIGN(lso_header_size - hopbyhop + 4, DS_SIZE);
+               int lso_align = ALIGN(lso_header_size + 4, DS_SIZE);
 
                data = (void *)&tx_desc->lso + lso_align;
                data_offset = offsetof(struct mlx4_en_tx_desc, lso) + lso_align;
@@ -1021,31 +1011,15 @@ netdev_tx_t mlx4_en_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
                        ((ring->prod & ring->size) ?
                                cpu_to_be32(MLX4_EN_BIT_DESC_OWN) : 0);
 
-               lso_header_size -= hopbyhop;
                /* Fill in the LSO prefix */
                tx_desc->lso.mss_hdr_size = cpu_to_be32(
                        shinfo->gso_size << 16 | lso_header_size);
 
+               /* Copy headers;
+                * note that we already verified that it is linear
+                */
+               memcpy(tx_desc->lso.header, skb->data, lso_header_size);
 
-               if (unlikely(hopbyhop)) {
-                       /* remove the HBH header.
-                        * Layout: [Ethernet header][IPv6 header][HBH][TCP header]
-                        */
-                       memcpy(tx_desc->lso.header, skb->data, ETH_HLEN + sizeof(*h6));
-                       h6 = (struct ipv6hdr *)((char *)tx_desc->lso.header + ETH_HLEN);
-                       h6->nexthdr = IPPROTO_TCP;
-                       /* Copy the TCP header after the IPv6 one */
-                       memcpy(h6 + 1,
-                              skb->data + ETH_HLEN + sizeof(*h6) +
-                                       sizeof(struct hop_jumbo_hdr),
-                              tcp_hdrlen(skb));
-                       /* Leave ipv6 payload_len set to 0, as LSO v2 specs request. */
-               } else {
-                       /* Copy headers;
-                        * note that we already verified that it is linear
-                        */
-                       memcpy(tx_desc->lso.header, skb->data, lso_header_size);
-               }
                ring->tso_packets++;
 
                i = shinfo->gso_segs;