Subject: Re: [PATCH net 3/3] hv_netvsc: Fix the default receive buffer size

From: Dan Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 13:44:59 +0300

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 04:10:55PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> From: Haiyang Zhang <[email-masked]>
> 
> The intended size is 16 MB, and the default slot size is 1728.
> So, NETVSC_DEFAULT_RX should be 16*1024*1024 / 1728 = 9709.
> 
> Fixes: 5023a6db73196 ("netvsc: increase default receive buffer size")
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> index dc70de674ca9..edfcde5d3621 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
>  #define NETVSC_MIN_TX_SECTIONS	10
>  #define NETVSC_DEFAULT_TX	192	/* ~1M */
>  #define NETVSC_MIN_RX_SECTIONS	10	/* ~64K */
> -#define NETVSC_DEFAULT_RX	10485   /* Max ~16M */
> +#define NETVSC_DEFAULT_RX	9709    /* ~16M */

How does this bug look like to the user?  Memory corruption?

It's weird to me reviewing this code that the default sizes are
stored in netvsc_drv.c and the max sizes are stored in hyperv_net.h.
Could we move these to hyperv_net.h?  We could write it like:
#define NETVSC_DEFAULT_RX ((16 * 1024 * 1024) / NETVSC_RECV_SECTION_SIZE)

16MB is sort of a weird default because it's larger than the 15MB
allowed for legacy versions, but it's smaller than the 32MB you'd want
for the current versions.

regards,
dan carpenter