linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 02/10] dpaa_eth: add support for DPAA Ethernet

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Date:   Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:55:00 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     madalin.bucur@....com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oss@...error.net,
        ppc@...dchasers.com, joe@...ches.com, pebolle@...cali.nl,
        joakim.tjernlund@...nsmode.se
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 02/10] dpaa_eth: add support for DPAA
 Ethernet

From: Madalin-Cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@....com>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:43:26 +0000

>> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2016 9:58 PM
>> 
>> Why?  By clearing this, you disallow an important fundamental way to do
>> performane testing, via pktgen.
> 
> The Tx path in DPAA requires one to insert a back-pointer to the skb into
> the Tx buffer. On the Tx confirmation path the back-pointer in the buffer
> is used to release the skb. If Tx buffer is shared we'd alter the back-pointer
> and leak/double free skbs. See also 

Then have your software state store an array of SKB pointers, one for each
TX ring entry, just like every other driver does.