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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
	alexander.h.duyck@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 00/11] udp gso
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 07:45:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180903114540.GA8269@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180903080248.GM23674@gauss3.secunet.de>

On (09/03/18 10:02), Steffen Klassert wrote:
> I'm working on patches that builds such skb lists. The list is chained
> at the frag_list pointer of the first skb, all subsequent skbs are linked
> to the next pointer of the skb. It looks like this:

there are some risks to using the frag_list pointer, Alex Duyck
had pointed this out to me in 
  https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg131081.html
(see last paragraph, or search for the string "gotcha" there)

I dont know the details of your playground patch, but might want to
watch out for those to make sure it is immune to these issues..

--Sowmini

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-03 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-17 20:00 [PATCH RFC net-next 00/11] udp gso Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-17 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 01/11] udp: expose inet cork to udp Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-17 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 02/11] udp: add gso Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-17 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 03/11] udp: better wmem accounting on gso Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-17 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 04/11] udp: paged allocation with gso Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-17 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 05/11] udp: add gso segment cmsg Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-17 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 06/11] udp: add gso support to virtual devices Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-18  0:43   ` Dimitris Michailidis
2018-04-18  3:27     ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-17 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 07/11] udp: zerocopy Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-17 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 08/11] selftests: udp gso Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-17 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 09/11] selftests: udp gso with connected sockets Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-17 20:15 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 00/11] udp gso Sowmini Varadhan
2018-04-17 20:23   ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-17 20:48     ` Sowmini Varadhan
2018-04-17 21:07       ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-18  2:25         ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-04-18  3:33           ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-18 12:31             ` Sowmini Varadhan
2018-04-18 13:35               ` Eric Dumazet
2018-04-18 13:47                 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2018-04-18 13:51                   ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-18 15:08                     ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-04-18 17:40                     ` David Miller
2018-04-18 17:34                   ` David Miller
2018-04-18 13:59               ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-18 14:28                 ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-18 17:28               ` David Miller
2018-04-18 18:12                 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-04-18 18:22                   ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-20 17:38                     ` Alexander Duyck
2018-04-20 21:58                       ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-21  2:08                         ` Alexander Duyck
2018-04-18 19:33                   ` David Miller
2018-04-20 18:27                   ` Tushar Dave
2018-04-20 20:08                     ` Alexander Duyck
2018-04-21  3:11                       ` Tushar Dave
2018-08-31  9:09         ` Paolo Abeni
2018-08-31 10:09           ` Eric Dumazet
2018-08-31 13:08           ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-08-31 13:44             ` Paolo Abeni
2018-08-31 15:11               ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-09-03  8:02             ` Steffen Klassert
2018-09-03 11:45               ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2018-04-18 11:17 ` Paolo Abeni
2018-04-18 13:49   ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-05-24  0:02     ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-05-24  1:15       ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-18 17:24   ` David Miller
2018-04-18 17:50 ` David Miller
2018-04-18 18:12   ` Willem de Bruijn
2018-04-19 17:45     ` David Miller

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