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From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	mst@redhat.com, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH V4 2/8] netdevice.h: Add a new zerocopy device flag
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 00:55:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304495717.20660.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
---

 include/linux/netdevice.h |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 0249fe7..0808f1e 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1067,6 +1067,16 @@ struct net_device {
 #define NETIF_F_RXHASH		(1 << 28) /* Receive hashing offload */
 #define NETIF_F_RXCSUM		(1 << 29) /* Receive checksumming offload */
 
+/*
+ * Bit 31 is for device to map userspace buffers -- zerocopy
+ * Device can set this flag when it supports HIGHDMA.
+ * Device can't recycle this kind of skb buffers.
+ * There are 256 bytes copied, the rest of buffers are mapped.
+ * The userspace callback should only be called when last reference to this skb
+ * is gone.
+ */
+#define NETIF_F_ZEROCOPY	(1 << 31)
+
 	/* Segmentation offload features */
 #define NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT	16
 #define NETIF_F_GSO_MASK	0x00ff0000



             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-04  7:55 Shirley Ma [this message]
     [not found] ` <4DC1DD9D.6070708@us.ibm.com>
2011-05-05 21:02   ` [PATCH V4 2/8] netdevice.h: Add a new zerocopy device flag Shirley Ma

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