netdev - Re: [net PATCH v4 0/6] virtio_net XDP fixes and adjust

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Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:51:31 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, mst@...hat.com
Cc:     john.r.fastabend@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: [net PATCH v4 0/6] virtio_net XDP fixes and adjust_header support



On 2017年01月16日 07:59, John Fastabend wrote:
> This has a fix to handle small buffer free logic correctly and then
> also adds adjust head support.
>
> I pushed adjust head at net (even though its rc3) to avoid having
> to push another exception case into virtio_net to catch if the
> program uses adjust_head and then block it. If there are any strong
> objections to this we can push it at net-next and use a patch from
> Jakub to add the exception handling but then user space has to deal
> with it either via try/fail logic or via kernel version checks. Granted
> we already have some cases that need to be configured to enable XDP
> but I don't see any reason to have yet another one when we can fix it
> now vs delaying a kernel version.
>
>
> v2: fix spelling error, convert unsigned -> unsigned int
> v3: v2 git crashed during send so retrying sorry for the noise
> v4: changed layout of rtnl_lock fixes (Stephen)
>      moved reset logic into virtio core with new patch (MST)
>      fixed up linearize and some code cleanup (Jason)
>
>      Otherwise did some generic code cleanup so might be a bit
>      cleaner this time at least that is the hope.
>
> Thanks everyone for the v3 review.

Thanks, looks good to me overall, just few nits.