From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] Let host NIC driver to DMA to guest user space. Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:18:49 -0800 Message-ID: <20100306091849.0e5d2a66@s6510> References: <1267868318-19268-1-git-send-email-xiaohui.xin@intel.com> <1267868318-19268-2-git-send-email-xiaohui.xin@intel.com> <1267868318-19268-3-git-send-email-xiaohui.xin@intel.com> <1267868318-19268-4-git-send-email-xiaohui.xin@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, mst@redhat.com, jdike@c2.user-mode-linux.org, Zhao Yu To: xiaohui.xin@intel.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1267868318-19268-4-git-send-email-xiaohui.xin@intel.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 17:38:38 +0800 xiaohui.xin@intel.com wrote: > From: Xin Xiaohui > > The patch let host NIC driver to receive user space skb, > then the driver has chance to directly DMA to guest user > space buffers thru single ethX interface. > > Signed-off-by: Xin Xiaohui > Signed-off-by: Zhao Yu > Sigend-off-by: Jeff Dike > --- > include/linux/netdevice.h | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > include/linux/skbuff.h | 30 +++++++++++++++-- > net/core/dev.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++ > net/core/skbuff.c | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > 4 files changed, 205 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) > There are too many ifdef's in this implementation. I would prefer to see a few functions (with stub for the non-ifdef case), like the network namespace code.