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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: xiaohui.xin@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	davem@davemloft.net, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au,
	jdike@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 17/17]add two new ioctls for mp device.
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:09:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100928130928.GE14385@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285623375.2263.552.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com>

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:36:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 12:27 +0800, xiaohui.xin@intel.com wrote:
> > From: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
> > 
> > The patch add two ioctls for mp device.
> > One is for userspace to query how much memory locked to make mp device
> > run smoothly. Another one is for userspace to set how much meory locked
> > it really wants.
> [...]
> > diff --git a/include/linux/mpassthru.h b/include/linux/mpassthru.h
> > index ba8f320..083e9f7 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mpassthru.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mpassthru.h
> > @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
> >  /* ioctl defines */
> >  #define MPASSTHRU_BINDDEV      _IOW('M', 213, int)
> >  #define MPASSTHRU_UNBINDDEV    _IO('M', 214)
> > +#define MPASSTHRU_SET_MEM_LOCKED	_IOW('M', 215, unsigned long)
> > +#define MPASSTHRU_GET_MEM_LOCKED_NEED	_IOR('M', 216, unsigned long)
> [...]
> 
> These will need compat handling.  You can avoid that by defining them to
> use a parameter type of u32 or u64.
> 
> Ben.

No need to introduce compat mess unless we have to.  I guess int is
sufficient: locking >= 2G just for guest networking is insane.

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-28 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-25  4:27 [PATCH v11 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25  4:27 ` [PATCH v11 01/17] Add a new structure for skb buffer from external xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 02/17] Add a new struct for device to manipulate external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 13:41     ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 03/17] Add a ndo_mp_port_prep pointer to net_device_ops xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 13:42     ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-29 13:41       ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 04/17]Add a function make external buffer owner to query capability xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 13:45     ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 05/17] Add a function to indicate if device use external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 06/17]Use callback to deal with skb_release_data() specially xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 07/17] Modify netdev_alloc_page() to get external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 08/17] Modify netdev_free_page() to release " xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 09/17] Don't do skb recycle, if device use " xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 10/17] Add a hook to intercept external buffers from NIC driver xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 11/17] Add header file for mp device xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 13:55     ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 12/17] Add a kconfig entry and make entry " xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 13:56     ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-29 13:39       ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 13/17] Add mp(mediate passthru) device xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 21:23     ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-28 13:06       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-28 14:39         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-28 14:43           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-28 15:18             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-28 18:48               ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-09-29 13:38       ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 14/17]Provides multiple submits and asynchronous notifications xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 15/17]An example how to modifiy NIC driver to use napi_gro_frags() interface xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 16/17]An example how to alloc user buffer based on " xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25  4:27   ` [PATCH v11 17/17]add two new ioctls for mp device xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 21:36     ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-28 13:09       ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2010-09-28  9:48     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-29  9:36       ` xiaohui.xin
2010-09-26 17:01 ` [PATCH v11 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-27  0:44   ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-28  1:25     ` Xin, Xiaohui

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