From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: hold sock reference while processing tx timestamps
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:54:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318496083.5612.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318449159.2644.9.camel@edumazet-laptop> (sfid-20111012_215313_649610_CEB1D4B5)
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 21:52 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > The other thing I was wondering -- what if we just set truesize to 1 (we
> > don't have any truesize checks) and account the skb to the socket
> > normally. Not really a good way either though.
> >
>
> Changing truesize is not allowed here see below.
Oh, good point.
> > FWIW I just decided to do it the other way around in mac80211 -- keep
> > the original SKB that's charged to the socket for the error queue, and
> > use a clone to actually do the TX.
>
> Hmm, please take a look at IFF_SKB_TX_SHARING stuff, added in commit
> d88733150 (net: add IFF_SKB_TX_SHARED flag to priv_flags)
mac80211 got that flag cleared -- and right now I see no way to change
that. 11ac/ad may require work in this area to be able to do this
better, and I have a number of ideas on how to do that, but right now I
don't see how we can do that.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-07 17:11 [RFC] net: remove erroneous sk null assignment in timestamping Johannes Berg
2011-10-07 17:33 ` David Miller
2011-10-07 17:40 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-07 17:47 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-07 17:53 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-07 18:42 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-08 7:59 ` Richard Cochran
2011-10-08 7:57 ` Richard Cochran
2011-10-08 8:16 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-08 8:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-08 10:32 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-11 13:34 ` Richard Cochran
2011-10-08 10:35 ` Richard Cochran
2011-10-12 18:36 ` [PATCH 1/1] net: hold sock reference while processing tx timestamps Richard Cochran
2011-10-12 19:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-12 19:27 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-12 19:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-13 8:54 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-10-13 4:51 ` Richard Cochran
2011-10-13 9:46 ` [PATCH 0/3] net: time stamping fixes Richard Cochran
2011-10-19 4:16 ` David Miller
2011-10-19 5:15 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-19 11:50 ` Richard Cochran
2011-10-19 12:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-19 12:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-19 12:58 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-19 13:09 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-19 13:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-19 13:35 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-19 13:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-19 13:57 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-19 14:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-19 14:24 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-19 14:27 ` Richard Cochran
2011-10-19 14:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-19 13:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-19 13:25 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-19 13:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-19 13:32 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-19 14:25 ` Richard Cochran
2011-10-13 9:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] net: hold sock reference while processing tx timestamps Richard Cochran
2011-10-19 4:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-13 9:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] dp83640: use proper function to free transmit time stamping packets Richard Cochran
2011-10-19 4:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-13 9:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] dp83640: free packet queues on remove Richard Cochran
2011-10-19 4:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-21 10:49 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] net: time stamping fixes Richard Cochran
2011-10-21 10:49 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] net: hold sock reference while processing tx timestamps Richard Cochran
2011-10-21 11:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-24 6:55 ` David Miller
2011-10-21 11:44 ` Johannes Berg
2011-10-21 10:49 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] dp83640: use proper function to free transmit time stamping packets Richard Cochran
2011-10-24 6:55 ` David Miller
2011-10-24 17:47 ` Richard Cochran
2011-10-24 23:16 ` David Miller
2011-10-21 10:49 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] dp83640: free packet queues on remove Richard Cochran
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