From: xiaohui.xin@intel.com
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu,
davem@davemloft.net, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
jdike@linux.intel.com
Cc: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v14 01/17] Add a new structure for skb buffer from external.
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:04:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc6e95d63a2c62aaf77f8ded22fc43ccefcdbbff.1288860477.git.xiaohui.xin@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288861513-5707-1-git-send-email-xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
From: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yu <yzhao81new@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
---
include/linux/skbuff.h | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 77eb60d..696e690 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -211,6 +211,15 @@ struct skb_shared_info {
skb_frag_t frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS];
};
+/* The structure is for a skb which pages may point to
+ * an external buffer, which is not allocated from kernel space.
+ * It also contains a destructor for itself.
+ */
+struct skb_ext_page {
+ struct page *page;
+ void (*dtor)(struct skb_ext_page *);
+};
+
/* We divide dataref into two halves. The higher 16 bits hold references
* to the payload part of skb->data. The lower 16 bits hold references to
* the entire skb->data. A clone of a headerless skb holds the length of
--
1.7.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-04 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-04 9:04 [PATCH v14 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:04 ` xiaohui.xin [this message]
2010-11-04 9:04 ` [PATCH v14 02/17] Add a new struct for device to manipulate external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:04 ` [PATCH v14 03/17] Add a ndo_mp_port_prep pointer to net_device_ops xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 04/17] Add a function make external buffer owner to query capability xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 05/17] Add a function to indicate if device use external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 06/17] Use callback to deal with skb_release_data() specially xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-04 9:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-08 8:03 ` xiaohui.xin
2010-11-08 8:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-08 8:39 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 07/17]Modify netdev_alloc_page() to get external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 08/17] Modify netdev_free_page() to release " xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 09/17] Don't do skb recycle, if device use " xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 10/17] If device is in zero-copy mode first, bonding will fail xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 11/17] Add a hook to intercept external buffers from NIC driver xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 12/17] Add header file for mp device xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 13/17] Add mp(mediate passthru) device xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 14/17] Add a kconfig entry and make entry for mp device xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 15/17]Provides multiple submits and asynchronous notifications xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 16/17] An example how to modifiy NIC driver to use napi_gro_frags() interface xiaohui.xin
2010-11-04 9:05 ` [PATCH v14 17/17] An example how to alloc user buffer based on " xiaohui.xin
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