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Message-ID: <011d3204-5c33-782c-41d1-53bf9bd2e095@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 11:23:51 -0600
From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory providers multiplexing (Was: [PATCH net-next v4 4/5]
 page_pool: remove PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG flag)

On 7/3/23 11:13 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> index a2dbeb264f260e5b8923ece9aac99fe19ddfeb62..aa4133d1b1e0676e408499ea4534b51262394432
> 100644
> --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
> +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
> @@ -2152,7 +2152,7 @@ static int packet_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct net_device *dev,
>                 }
>         }
> 
> -       snaplen = skb->len;
> +       snaplen = skb->devmem ? skb_headlen(skb) : skb->len;
> 

Ok, so you expect a flag on the skb noting the use of 'untouchable'
memory. That aligns with my expectations based on POCs.

Based on the above: 1) skb->head is expected to be host memory, and 2)
the flag is a global for all frags, so no mix and match.