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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: xiaohui.xin@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, jdike@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net.
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:15:16 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101109.091516.112581012.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289293402-4791-1-git-send-email-xiaohui.xin@intel.com>

From: xiaohui.xin@intel.com
Date: Tue,  9 Nov 2010 17:03:05 +0800

> We provide an zero-copy method which driver side may get external
> buffers to DMA. Here external means driver don't use kernel space
> to allocate skb buffers. Currently the external buffer can be from
> guest virtio-net driver.

1) Please use kernel-doc style comments to document structure
   members.

2) The idea to key off of skb->dev in skb_release_data() is
   fundamentally flawed since many actions can change skb->dev on you,
   which will end up causing a leak of your external data areas.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-09 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-09  9:03 [PATCH v15 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03 ` [PATCH v15 01/17] Add a new structure for skb buffer from external xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 02/17]Add a new struct for device to manipulate external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 03/17]Add a ndo_mp_port_prep pointer to net_device_ops xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 04/17]Add a function make external buffer owner to query capability xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 05/17] Add a function to indicate if device use external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 06/17] Use callback to deal with skb_release_data() specially xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 07/17]Modify netdev_alloc_page() to get external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 08/17]Modify netdev_free_page() to release " xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 09/17] Don't do skb recycle, if device use " xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 10/17]If device is in zero-copy mode first, bonding will fail xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 11/17] Add a hook to intercept external buffers from NIC driver xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 12/17] Add header file for mp device xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 13/17] Add mp(mediate passthru) device xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 14/17]Add a kconfig entry and make entry for mp device xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 15/17] Provides multiple submits and asynchronous notifications xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 16/17] An example how to modifiy NIC driver to use napi_gro_frags() interface xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09  9:03   ` [PATCH v15 17/17] An example how to alloc user buffer based on " xiaohui.xin
2010-11-09 17:15 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-11-10  9:23   ` [PATCH v15 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net xiaohui.xin
2010-11-10 17:46     ` David Miller
2010-11-11  8:28       ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-11-17  8:09         ` Xin, Xiaohui

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