netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/8] net: Add Generic Receive Offload infrastructure

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Date:	Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:43:56 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] net: Add Generic Receive Offload infrastructure

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:11:38AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> BTW this should be pretty easy to implement through a second
> entry, e.g., napi_gro_receive_pages() that works just like its
> LRO counter-part lro_receive_frags.  This would have its own
> protocol hooks so it doesn't need to do anything nasty to get
> at the packet headers.

In fact we don't even need extra hooks.  All we need to do is to
keep one pre-allocated in the napi struct, and use that to hold
the pages while we process it.  If it's merged (we'd modify the
low-level skb_gro_receive to merge the pages directly rather than
the skb), then we return the skb to use it again for the next
packet.  If not then we just allocate a new skb.  This way none
of the protocol-specific code needs to handle pages at all.

Cheers,
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