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From: xiaohui.xin@intel.com
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	davem@davemloft.net, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	jdike@linux.intel.com
Cc: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v9 01/16] Add a new structure for skb buffer from external.
Date: Fri,  6 Aug 2010 17:23:29 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1281086624-5765-2-git-send-email-xiaohui.xin@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281086624-5765-1-git-send-email-xiaohui.xin@intel.com>

From: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yu <yzhao81new@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
---
 include/linux/skbuff.h |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 124f90c..74af06c 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -203,6 +203,15 @@ struct skb_shared_info {
 	void *		destructor_arg;
 };
 
+/* The structure is for a skb which pages may point to
+ * an external buffer, which is not allocated from kernel space.
+ * It also contains a destructor for itself.
+ */
+struct skb_ext_page {
+	struct		page *page;
+	void		(*dtor)(struct skb_ext_page *);
+};
+
 /* We divide dataref into two halves.  The higher 16 bits hold references
  * to the payload part of skb->data.  The lower 16 bits hold references to
  * the entire skb->data.  A clone of a headerless skb holds the length of
-- 
1.5.4.4

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-06  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-06  9:23 [RFC PATCH v9 00/16] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23 ` xiaohui.xin [this message]
2010-08-06  9:23   ` [RFC PATCH v9 02/16] Add a new struct for device to manipulate external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23     ` [RFC PATCH v9 03/16] Add a ndo_mp_port_prep func to net_device_ops xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23       ` [RFC PATCH v9 04/16] Add a function make external buffer owner to query capability xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23         ` [RFC PATCH v9 05/16] Add a function to indicate if device use external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23           ` [RFC PATCH v9 06/16] Use callback to deal with skb_release_data() specially xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23             ` [RFC PATCH v9 07/16] Modify netdev_alloc_page() to get external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23               ` [RFC PATCH v9 08/16] Modify netdev_free_page() to release " xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23                 ` [RFC PATCH v9 09/16] Don't do skb recycle, if device use " xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23                   ` [RFC PATCH v9 10/16] Add a hook to intercept external buffers from NIC driver xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23                     ` [RFC PATCH v9 11/16] Add header file for mp device xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23                       ` [RFC PATCH v9 13/16] Add a kconfig entry and make entry " xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23                         ` [RFC PATCH v9 12/16] Add mp(mediate passthru) device xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23                           ` [RFC PATCH v9 14/16] Provides multiple submits and asynchronous notifications xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23                             ` [RFC PATCH v9 15/16] An example how to modifiy NIC driver to use napi_gro_frags() interface xiaohui.xin
2010-08-06  9:23                               ` [RFC PATCH v9 16/16] An example how to alloc user buffer based on " xiaohui.xin
2010-09-06 11:11                           ` [RFC PATCH v9 12/16] Add mp(mediate passthru) device Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-10 13:40                             ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-11  7:41                               ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-12 13:37                                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-15  3:13                                   ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-15 11:28                                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-17  3:16                                       ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-20  8:08                                       ` xiaohui.xin
2010-09-20 11:36                                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-21  1:39                                           ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-21 13:14                                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-22 11:41                                               ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-22 11:55                                                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-23 12:56                                                   ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-26 11:50                                                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-27  0:42                                                       ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-11  9:42                               ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-08-11  1:23 ` [RFC PATCH v9 00/16] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net Shirley Ma
2010-08-11  1:43   ` Shirley Ma
2010-08-11  6:01     ` Shirley Ma
2010-08-11  6:55       ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-03 10:52         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-13 18:48           ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-13 21:35           ` Shirley Ma
2010-09-03 10:14   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-03 20:29     ` Sridhar Samudrala

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