[ovs-dev] [PATCH 0/2 v4] Open vSwitch zerocopy upcall

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Thu Nov 14 07:13:57 UTC 2013


From: Thomas Graf <tgraf at suug.ch>
Date: Fri,  8 Nov 2013 11:47:16 +0100

> Respin of the zerocopy patches for the openvswitch upcall.
> 
> V4: - Daniel Borkmann pointed out that the style in skbuff.h has changed
>       in net-next, adapted to no longer using extern in headers.
> V3: - Removed unneeded alignment of nlmsg_len after padding 
> V2: - Added skb_zerocopy_headlen() to calculate headroom of destination
>       buffer. This also takes care of the from->head_frag issue.
>     - Attribute alignment for frag_list case
>     - API documentation
>     - performance data for CHECKSUM_PARTIAL tx case
> 
> Thomas Graf (2):
>   net: Export skb_zerocopy() to zerocopy from one skb to another
>   openvswitch: Use skb_zerocopy() for upcall

No objections from me for these changes, but it's too late for the
current merge window.

Jesse can feel free to queue this up in his tree and you can add my:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>

to these patches.

Thanks!



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