netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v5 2/2] net: add netmem to skb_frag

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Message-ID: <5219f2cd-6854-0134-560d-8ae3f363b53f@huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:44:51 +0800
From: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@...wei.com>
To: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
	<edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni
	<pabeni@...hat.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
	Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>, Shakeel Butt
	<shakeelb@...gle.com>, Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v5 2/2] net: add netmem to skb_frag_t

On 2024/1/9 9:14, Mina Almasry wrote:

...

>  
> +		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!skb_frag_page(&skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0]))) {

I am really hate to bring it up again.
If you are not willing to introduce a new helper, do you care to use some
existing API like skb_frag_address_safe()?

> +			ret = -EINVAL;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
> +
>  		iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE,
> -			      skb_shinfo(skb)->frags, skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags,
> -			      msize);
> +			      (const struct bio_vec *)skb_shinfo(skb)->frags,
> +			      skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags, msize);

I think we need to use some built-time checking to ensure some consistency
between skb_frag_t and bio_vec.

>  		iov_iter_advance(&msg.msg_iter, txm->frag_offset);
>  
>  		do {
>