netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v8 2/4] vsock/virtio: support to send non-linear skb

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Message-ID: <nzguzjuchyk5uwdnexegayweyogv5wdfgaxrrw47fuw2rjkumq@4ybro57ixsga>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:06:17 +0200
From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
To: Arseniy Krasnov <avkrasnov@...utedevices.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, 
	Bobby Eshleman <bobby.eshleman@...edance.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...rdevices.ru, 
	oxffffaa@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v8 2/4] vsock/virtio: support to send non-linear
 skb

On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 11:22:32PM +0300, Arseniy Krasnov wrote:
>For non-linear skb use its pages from fragment array as buffers in
>virtio tx queue. These pages are already pinned by 'get_user_pages()'
>during such skb creation.
>
>Signed-off-by: Arseniy Krasnov <avkrasnov@...utedevices.com>
>---
> Changelog:
> v2 -> v3:
>  * Comment about 'page_to_virt()' is updated. I don't remove R-b,
>    as this change is quiet small I guess.
> v6 -> v7:
>  * Move arrays '*sgs' and 'bufs' to 'virtio_vsock' instead of being
>    local variables. This allows to save stack space in cases of too
>    big MAX_SKB_FRAGS.
>  * Add 'WARN_ON_ONCE()' for handling nonlinear skbs - it checks that
>    linear part of such skb contains only header.
>  * R-b tag removed due to updates above.
> v7 -> v8:
>  * Add comment in 'struct virtio_vsock' for both 'struct scatterlist'
>    fields.
>  * Rename '*sgs' and 'bufs' to '*out_sgs' and 'out_bufs'.
>  * Initialize '*out_sgs' in 'virtio_vsock_probe()' by always pointing
>    to the corresponding element of 'out_bufs'.

LGTM, thanks for addressing that comments!

>
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>