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 V5 2/6 net-next] netdevice.h: Add zero-copy flag in netdevice
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 12:28:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305574128.3456.23.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 a134d80..2646251 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1066,6 +1066,16 @@ struct net_device {
#define NETIF_F_NOCACHE_COPY (1 << 30) /* Use no-cache copyfromuser */
#define NETIF_F_LOOPBACK (1 << 31) /* Enable loopback */
+/*
+ * 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
next reply other threads:[~2011-05-16 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-16 19:28 Shirley Ma [this message]
2011-05-16 19:35 ` [PATCH V5 2/6 net-next] netdevice.h: Add zero-copy flag in netdevice Ben Hutchings
2011-05-16 19:38 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-16 19:47 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-05-16 21:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-16 23:32 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-17 6:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-17 20:53 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-17 21:48 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-17 22:28 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-17 22:58 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-17 23:44 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-18 9:06 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-18 10:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-18 11:10 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-18 11:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-18 11:40 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-18 11:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-18 14:38 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-18 15:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-18 16:07 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-18 16:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-18 16:45 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-18 16:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-18 17:00 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-19 19:42 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-19 23:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-25 22:49 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-26 8:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-26 15:27 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-26 19:11 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-18 16:02 ` Shirley Ma
2011-05-18 16:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-18 16:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-18 11:47 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-18 11:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-05-18 12:48 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-18 13:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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