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Shirley Ma a6686f2f38 skbuff: skb supports zero-copy buffers 
This patch adds userspace buffers support in skb shared info. A new
struct skb_ubuf_info is needed to maintain the userspace buffers
argument and index, a callback is used to notify userspace to release
the buffers once lower device has done DMA (Last reference to that skb
has gone).

If there is any userspace apps to reference these userspace buffers,
then these userspaces buffers will be copied into kernel. This way we
can prevent userspace apps from holding these userspace buffers too long.

Use destructor_arg to point to the userspace buffer info; a new tx flags
SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY is added for zero-copy buffer check.

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-07 04:41:13 -07:00
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9p Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2011-05-26 12:13:57 -07:00
802 snap: remove one synchronize_net() 2011-05-23 16:29:24 -04:00
8021q Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-07-05 23:23:37 -07:00
appletalk appletalk: Reduce switch/case indent 2011-07-01 16:11:15 -07:00
atm net: Remove casts of void * 2011-06-16 23:19:27 -04:00
ax25 ax25: Fix set-but-unused variable. 2011-04-17 00:48:31 -07:00
batman-adv Merge branch 'batman-adv/next' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge 2011-07-05 19:45:12 -07:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2011-06-30 13:34:06 -04:00
bridge Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-07-05 23:23:37 -07:00
caif Remove redundant linux/version.h includes from net/ 2011-06-21 16:03:17 -07:00
can net/can: use printk_ratelimited() instead of printk_ratelimit() 2011-06-17 00:03:03 -04:00
ceph Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-06-20 22:29:08 -07:00
core skbuff: skb supports zero-copy buffers 2011-07-07 04:41:13 -07:00
dcb dcbnl: Add CEE notification 2011-07-05 23:42:17 -07:00
dccp dccp ccid-2: Perform congestion-window validation 2011-07-04 12:37:49 -06:00
decnet decnet: Reduce switch/case indent 2011-07-01 16:11:15 -07:00
dns_resolver KEYS: Improve /proc/keys 2011-03-17 11:59:32 +11:00
dsa DSA: Enable cascading in multi-chip 6131 configuration 2011-06-29 05:53:49 -07:00
econet af_econet: Use current logging styles and neatening 2011-07-03 20:05:16 -07:00
ethernet eth: fix new kernel-doc warning 2011-01-12 19:00:40 -08:00
ieee802154 ieee802154: free skb buffer if dev isn't running 2011-06-30 16:18:09 +04:00
ipv4 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-07-05 23:23:37 -07:00
ipv6 Disable router anycast address for /127 prefixes 2011-07-07 04:15:10 -07:00
ipx ipx: fix ipx_release() 2011-03-21 18:16:39 -07:00
irda Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-06-20 22:29:08 -07:00
iucv [S390] irq: merge irq.c and s390_ext.c 2011-05-26 09:48:24 +02:00
key net: Remove casts of void * 2011-06-16 23:19:27 -04:00
l2tp Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-06-20 22:29:08 -07:00
lapb lapb: Reduce switch/case indent 2011-07-01 16:11:16 -07:00
llc llc: Fix length check in llc_fixup_skb(). 2011-04-11 18:59:05 -07:00
mac80211 mac80211: propagate information about STA WME support down 2011-06-29 15:11:00 -04:00
netfilter netfilter: Reduce switch/case indent 2011-07-01 16:11:15 -07:00
netlabel net: Remove casts of void * 2011-06-16 23:19:27 -04:00
netlink Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2011-06-24 15:25:51 -04:00
netrom netrom: Reduce switch/case indent 2011-07-01 16:11:16 -07:00
packet packet: Fix leak in pre-defrag support. 2011-07-06 07:30:59 -07:00
phonet rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size 2011-06-09 20:38:07 -07:00
rds net: rds: fix const array syntax 2011-07-01 16:16:19 -07:00
rfkill net: rfkill: add generic gpio rfkill driver 2011-05-19 13:53:54 -04:00
rose rose: Delete commented out references to ancient firewalling code. 2011-07-07 02:41:59 -07:00
rxrpc rxrpc: Fix set but unused variable 'usage' in rxrpc_get_transport() 2011-05-19 18:51:50 -04:00
sched net: sched: constify tcf_proto and tc_action 2011-07-06 02:52:16 -07:00
sctp sctp: Reduce switch/case indent 2011-07-01 16:11:16 -07:00
sunrpc Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-07-05 23:23:37 -07:00
tipc tipc: Optimize creation of connection protocol messages 2011-06-24 16:18:18 -04:00
unix net: convert %p usage to %pK 2011-05-24 01:13:12 -04:00
wanrouter Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
wimax
wireless Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2011-06-28 13:56:21 -04:00
x25 x25: Reduce switch/case indent 2011-07-01 16:11:16 -07:00
xfrm Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-07-05 23:23:37 -07:00
compat.c net: Add sendmmsg socket system call 2011-05-05 11:10:14 -07:00
Kconfig bpf: depends on MODULES 2011-04-29 10:20:53 -07:00
Makefile net: Enter net/ipv6/ even if CONFIG_IPV6=n 2011-03-07 12:50:52 -08:00
nonet.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
socket.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2011-05-20 13:43:21 -07:00
sysctl_net.c