netdev - Re: [PATCH V3 2/8] Add a new zerocopy device flag

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Message-ID: <1303330173.19336.52.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:09:33 -0700
From:	Shirley Ma <mashirle@...ibm.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, mst@...hat.com,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/8] Add a new zerocopy device flag

Resubmit this patch with the new bit.

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@...ibm.com>
---

 include/linux/netdevice.h |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 0249fe7..0998d3d 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1067,6 +1067,9 @@ struct net_device {
 #define NETIF_F_RXHASH		(1 << 28) /* Receive hashing offload */
 #define NETIF_F_RXCSUM		(1 << 29) /* Receive checksumming offload */
 
+/* Bit 30 is for device to map userspace buffers -- zerocopy */
+#define NETIF_F_ZEROCOPY	(1 << 30)
+
 	/* Segmentation offload features */
 #define NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT	16
 #define NETIF_F_GSO_MASK	0x00ff0000


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