netdev - Re: macvtap MAX_SKB

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Date:	Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:34:46 +0800
From:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mst@...hat.com
Subject: Re: macvtap MAX_SKB_FRAGS fix...

On 08/06/2013 04:39 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> On 08/06/2013 11:51 AM, David Miller wrote:
>> Jason, I want to get that into v3.4.x -stable but it needs a backport
>> and I'd rather someone like you who knows the code does it rather
>> than I.
>>
>> The issue seems that be that the arguments to uarg->callback() were
>> different back then.
>>
>> Thanks.
> Sure.
>
> For 3.4.x we need to pick c70aa540c7a9f67add11ad3161096fb95233aa2e
> (vhost: zerocopy: poll vq in zerocopy callback) first to let the
> backport work. The reason of different arguments is because 3.4.x does
> not track DMA failure. So we can just do uarg->callback(uarg);
>
> Please see the attached patches.

Looks like a git send-email is better, will post them.
>
> Thanks
>


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