linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Defer skb allocation for both mergeable buffers and big packets in virtio

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Message-ID: <20091124160359.GA6737@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:04:00 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Shirley Ma <mashirle@...ibm.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Defer skb allocation for both mergeable buffers
	and big packets in virtio_net

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:36:32AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:54:23AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>>   
>>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:37:01 am Shirley Ma wrote:
>>>     
>>>>>> +             skb = (struct sk_buff *)buf;
>>>>>>           
>>>>> This cast is unnecessary, but a comment would be nice:
>>>>>         
>>>> Without this cast there is a compile warning.       
>>> Hi Shirley,
>>>
>>>    Looks like buf is a void *, so no cast should be necessary.  But I could
>>> be reading the patch wrong.
>>>
>>>     
>>>>> However, I question whether making it 16 byte is the right thing: the
>>>>> ethernet header is 14 bytes long, so don't we want 8 bytes of padding?
>>>>>         
>>>> Because in QEMU it requires 10 bytes header in a separately, so one page
>>>> is used to share between virtio_net_hdr header which is 10 bytes head
>>>> and rest of data. So I put 6 bytes offset here between two buffers. I
>>>> didn't look at the reason why a seperate buf is used for virtio_net_hdr
>>>> in QEMU.
>>>>       
>>> It's a qemu bug.  It insists the header be an element in the scatterlist by
>>> itself.  Unfortunately we have to accommodate it.
>>>     
>>
>> We do?  Let's just fix this?
>>   
>
> So does lguest.  It's been that way since the beginning.  Fixing this  
> would result in breaking older guests.

The patch you are replying to fixes this in a way that does not break older guests.

> We really need to introduce a feature bit if we want to change this.

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MST
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